LABOUR ARE NOW REALISING THEY NEED TO LEAVE THE ECHR TO CONTROL MIGRATION, SAYS REES-MOGG
Sir Jacob Rees Mogg has said the Labour Party is facing the same realisation as ‘the left of the Conservative Party’ over leaving the ECHR.
Speaking on GB News, Jacob Rees-Mogg said:
“People will the end, but not the means. The end is control of illegal migration, the means is withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights.
“Everything that stymied the last Conservative government came from human rights legislation and the Refugee Convention.
“We have to pass a lot of law on top of that; it doesn’t just happen the moment you withdraw from the Convention and indeed, you’ve got to give a year’s notice so there is a lag.
“But without doing that we will constantly find that we cannot deport people. If we cannot deport people they will keep coming.
“In this sense, we should admire the people who come because they want a better life, and don’t we all want a better life?
“But what they’re doing is breaking our law – or they did until Labour made it legal again, which was a foolish thing to have done.
“But it cannot be controlled or stopped without repealing the Human Rights Act and leaving the Convention.
“The Labour Party is going through exactly what the left of the Conservative Party was going through in the last parliament; liking the Human Rights Act in principle, recognising it was making things very difficult, but not being willing to come to the conclusion that we had to
leave.
“The processing point is, I’m afraid, merely giving them the right to stay. 90% of Syrians, a similar percentage of Afghanistan, who come in illegally, are being allowed to stay.
“We changed the law to say that if you came here on a small boat that was illegal, you couldn’t claim asylum. Therefore, it wasn’t a question of processing them and making them British citizens, it was a question of finding somewhere to deport them too and Rwanda was then blocked.
“It’s not 14 years because it wasn’t a problem 14 years ago. There was an earlier problem with people coming over on lorries, which was actually solved. And then the boats really took off.
“We took people under the Dublin Convention, we actually had net inflows.”
