Question Time audience shouts 'shame' as Sunak says he is prepared to leave ECHRBBC
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00:00If a foreign court, including the European court, forces me to choose between our country's
00:05national security and membership of that court, I'm going to choose this country's national
00:10security every single time.
00:12So when you say it's a foreign court, Shane, just to be clear, when you say it's a foreign
00:17court, it's a court that we were part of setting up as Great Britain, as the United Kingdom.
00:23It also has a British judge sitting on it.
00:25So I'm just wondering why you call it a foreign court.
00:27It's a court that we were part of establishing.
00:29But it is in Strasbourg, Fiona, and that means it's not a British court.
00:32It's not a court that has nothing to do with us.
00:34We were absolutely instrumental in setting it up.
00:36My point is very clear.
00:37I believe everything we're doing is in compliance with our rules and regulations.
00:41But this issue is too important to not to be able to grip.
00:45I want to deliver on the thing that I promised you I would deliver on.
00:48I want to get these flights off, build this incentive, or remove the incentive, build
00:51the deterrent.
00:52It's the only way to solve this problem.
00:54Now, you and I disagree on that, right?
00:56You think it's fine for people to come and they shouldn't be removed.
00:58That's your decision.
00:59I don't think that's right for our country.
01:01And that's why I'm prepared to do what it takes to get this problem resolved.