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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Caitlin Doherty

Shabana Mahmood to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown

Labour will overhaul human rights laws to make it easier to deport foreign criminals and small boat migrants as part of a major immigration crackdown.

Under sweeping reforms unveiled by the home secretary, the government will attempt to change the way the European Convention on Human Rights is interpreted by UK judges in a bid to stop asylum seekers using their rights to a family life to avoid deportation.

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