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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Misinformation being ‘whipped up’ over immigration cases – Attorney General

Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer arriving in Downing street, in central London (James Manning/PA) - (PA Archive)

Misinformation is being “whipped up” over asylum and immigration cases in relation to international human rights law, the Government’s top legal adviser has said.

Lord Richard Hermer KC warned there is a “real job on misinformation” around Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to private and family life, in how it is applied to immigration cases in the UK.

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