Ministers committed to ECHR, No 10 says, ahead of border reforms announcement

Protesters marching in Epping, Essex after a temporary injunction that would have blocked asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel, was overturned at the Court of Appeal (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Ministers will not seek to leave a major human rights treaty to grapple with migration, Downing Street has insisted, after a summer dominated by criticism over the small boats crisis and hotel housing.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil reforms to the border security and asylum system as Parliament returns on Monday from its summer break.