Rishi Sunak threatens to remove UK from ECHR if Rwanda plan blocked

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Rishi Sunak threatens to remove UK from ECHR if Rwanda plan blocked
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RISHI Sunak has said controlling immigration is more important than “membership of a foreign court” in his strongest hint yet that he could…

RISHI Sunak has said controlling immigration is more important than “membership of a foreign court” in his strongest hint yet that he could back leaving the European Convention on Human Rights .

The Safety of Rwanda Bill currently making its way through Parliament includes provisions that would allow ministers to ignore such orders. After a fall in crossings last year, more than 5000 people made the journey in the first three months of this year, exceeding the previous record set in 2022. “We’ve then returned thousands of people back to Albania and what happened? They stopped coming. Now we need to replicate that.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.

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