The Prime Minister must make up his mind whether or not to see through a policy to stop the small boats – now an issue of profound symbolic importance.
But there are truths in life – for example, that a stich in time saves nine, beggars can’t be choosers…and that you can’t spend more than your earn. His premiership ends with record spending and taxes.
Take the case of a Nigerian national who was sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for offences including possessing crack cocaine and heroin with the intention to supply. The First-tier Tribunal allowed his appeal against deportation on grounds deportation was irreconcilable with Article 8.
The new leader should review the Government’s current plans and focus limited time and political capital where it counts.
It seems to fall between two stools: neither a tight technical update of the existing system, nor a fundamental overhaul.
Our commitment to the rule of law is undiminished, but the Human Rights Act is a flawed vehicle which needs reform.
The Court has simply made up its jurisdiction to provide interim relief. More specific to this case, it had no proper application before it.
The recent drive, apparently coordinated between Paris and Berlin, to push Ukraine for a compromise settlement must be resisted.
It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
Proposals that define Convention rights in ways other than the Court determines send the wrong message.
It took the wholesale conquest of Germany to put the Nazis on trial; the odds of seeing Putin in the Hague are remote.
After a stumbling start, the Government is heading in the right direction on human rights reform. But there remains much to do.
The solution is emergency legislation that lists in a schedule every Russian national who has been the target of EU and US sanctions.
Policy must focus on the complex networks that perpetuate, fund, enable, and legitimise violence.
Is the free world prepared to show an ounce of the courage of the people risking their lives to defy the Iranian regime?