The Conservatives are pushing for the UK to leave the ECHR, claiming it is limiting the government’s abilities to control borders. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says the government should be able to do “what the public want”.
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00:00Well, we're developing our own policies in opposition.
00:02We're increasingly reaching the view that we do need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights
00:08to enable our democratically elected parliament to do what the public want,
00:12whether that's protecting veterans from vexatious litigation, whether it's oil and gas drilling,
00:17or whether it's controlling our borders.
00:20The way that judges, both in Strasbourg and here, interpret the ECHR means that we can't do what the public want,
00:27for example, deport every single foreign criminal, not some, but all foreign criminals.
00:33So we're of the view now increasingly that we do need to leave,
00:36but we're going to get one of the country's most eminent barristers, Lord Wolfson,
00:39to do a legal review, looking at some of these questions in more detail,
00:43seeing if there are any unforeseen pitfalls or challenges we need to overcome
00:47to make sure we've thought this through properly.
00:50It'll be a quick review. It'll report in three or four months' time.
00:52We'll then make a final decision, and when we do, the public will be able to have confidence
00:57we have thought this through properly.
00:59Well, look, we should decide who we extend help to, and when people are in need,
01:02we are often very generous.
01:04I mean, obviously, the Ukrainian scheme has operated at hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians,
01:07women and children particularly, have come here.
01:09During the Syrian crisis, I think about 20,000 or 25,000 vulnerable Syrians
01:14were brought directly to the UK from refugee camps.
01:17We have people coming from Hong Kong as well.
01:19So, of course, we want to help people when they're in need,
01:22but the government, the democratically elected government, should decide who to help,
01:25not mostly young men crossing the English Channel on dinghies who have paid people smugglers.
01:31They're pushing their way to the front of the queue.
01:33They're circumventing any form of border control.
01:35They are almost entirely young men.
01:37There are almost no women and children on those dinghies crossing the Channel.
01:40That is not the way to run an asylum system.
01:42That is why we need to have zero tolerance for illegal immigration,
01:45and anyone coming here illegally should be removed.
01:48And then very quickly, the crossings will stop entirely.
01:51Australia did something similar about 10 years ago,
01:54and within a matter of a few months, the crossings entirely stopped.
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