10/09/2025 10:38
The Guardian
The visit is seen as highly contentious amid the war in Gaza and Israel’s bombing of Qatar in a targeted strike aimed at Hamas officialsOn Monday Shabana Mahmood, the new home secretary, said that she would do “whatever it takes” to secure the borders. In evidence to the Lords constitution committee, Lord Hermer, the attorney general, gave a similar, but subtly different, reply to a similar question. Referring to the small boats problem, he said:This government has made absolutely plain that it is our priority to address it and as the previous lord chancellor, now home secretary, made plain before you, we will leave no stone unturned in trying to protect this country’s interests and dealing with what we inherited in respect of an immigration and asylum system that, in large measures was broken …Nothing sensible or practical or effective will be off the table.Some of our colleagues on the Council of Europe have, I think, more effective, more robust mechanisms that are compliant with article 8 that we need to look at. We are kicking the tyres hard at every level.I saw that analysis. It’s just wrong. As you know, the European convention is expressly baked in to that agreement. We would be in breach of it if we left the convention.That’s the plain legal view. I’m sure it would be the view not only held by Ireland, but also by the EU. It would do enormous damage to the interests of this country. It would be deeply worrying for Northern Ireland. Continue reading...
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