Nigel Farage has been warned his plan to retrospectively strip thousands of people of indefinite leave to remain would “trash Britain's reputation for fairness”, as lawyers say the policy would be blocked by the courts.
Immigration lawyers have told The Independent that the retroactive element of the policy is likely to be successfully challenged in the courts whether or not the UK left the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) because an expectation that laws can’t be changed in hindsight is a “a cornerstone of administrative law around fairness”.
