Keir Starmer has said he will look at how international law is being interpreted by British courts in an effort to tackle small boats, which he branded “Farage boats” because of their increase in number since Brexit.
Speaking after the Labour party conference, the prime minister signalled his unhappiness with how the European convention of human rights was being interpreted by judges making decisions about deportations.
But he defended the UK’s membership of the ECHR, saying that ministers “need to look again at the interpretation of some of these provisions, not tear them down”.
Starmer told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that w
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