Sir Keir Starmer is under growing pressure from within his own party to crack down on human rights laws that have “blocked the removal of foreign criminals” — including cases where offenders were allowed to stay in the UK for bizarre reasons like their children refusing to eat “foreign chicken nuggets.”
A group of Labour MPs from the so-called “Red Wall” have urged the Prime Minister to back reforms to how UK courts interpret the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) — particularly Article 8, which guarantees the right to a private and family life.
