{"id":31393,"date":"2025-04-18T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31393\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:00:14","slug":"britain-must-lead-international-alliance-in-quitting-european-court-of-human-rights-if-reforms-fail-warns-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31393\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain must lead international alliance in quitting European Court of Human Rights if reforms fail, warns report"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRITAIN must lead an international alliance in quitting the European Court of Human Rights if major reforms fail, a new report warns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> has to join forces with France, Germany and Italy by walking away from Strasbourg if an overhaul can\u2019t be achieved, the study says.<\/p>\n

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Britain must lead an international alliance in quitting the European Court of Human Rights if major reforms fail, a new report warnsCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n

Changes must include ending the misuse of Article 8<\/a>, the so-called right to a family life, that has stopped foreign offenders<\/a> from being kicked out of Britain.<\/p>\n

It was revealed earlier this month that a Colombian offender who committed 27 offences to fund a drug and drink habit avoided deportation<\/a> under the rules.<\/p>\n

Cases also include a Jamaican drug dealer<\/a>, jailed for three years and four months, who avoided being sent home as he had three young children and his wife in the UK.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper<\/a> is currently looking at the implementation of human rights<\/a> laws and how they are being used to block deportations so that they\u2019re applied by the courts<\/a> in a proportionate way.<\/p>\n

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch<\/a> has said that she is ready to walk away from the European Convention of Human Rights<\/a> if it stops the government acting in the national interest.<\/p>\n

The document titled \u2018Reform to Conserve\u2019 from the Henry Jackson Society also calls for judges to publish declarations of interest and transparency concerning their affiliations.<\/p>\n

Judges must also give interviews after handing down a ruling to enhance transparency and public scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Dr Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society, last night said: \u201cReform is not simply an option \u2014 it is a necessity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Court of Human Rights must return to its founding purpose and respect the primacy of democratic states to govern in the interests of their own citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowhere is this more urgent than in the misuse of Article 8 \u2014 the so-called right to family life \u2014 which has been repeatedly exploited to prevent the deportation of foreign criminals and obstruct legitimate immigration control.<\/p>\n

Suella Braverman, Radio 4 Aug 29, European court is ‘politicised’<\/p>\n

\u201cThese distortions not only erode public confidence, but also damage the Court\u2019s credibility. <\/p>\n

“If Strasbourg remains unwilling to adapt, it risks making itself obsolete \u2014 overtaken by both domestic and international forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRITAIN must lead an international alliance in quitting the European Court of Human Rights if major reforms fail,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,527,30,393,299,560,4884,528,1144,18624,712,935,520,118,16,18625,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-31393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-conservative-party","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-exclusives","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-labour-party","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-refugee-crisis","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-section-newspolitics","22":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","23":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-uk-immigration-crisis","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114361455792996886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}