Benedict Spence, conservative commentator, and Baroness Claire Fox, independent peer and director of the Academy of Ideas, discuss how the ECHR is causing more illegal migrant hand-outs in court.
High court judges ruled that the police seizure of asylum seekers’ phones amounted to a violation of European Human Rights Law, in contravention of article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article eight outlines the right to a private and family life.
The phones were seized as the migrants came to the country, enabling the police to gather evidence about any contact between them and people smuggling gangs.
So far, an average of £6,500 per person has been paid to compensate migrants. 70 migrants have been paid.
It is feared the total bill could run into the millions, as more migrants who have had phones seized make claims.
Reform MP Robert Jenrick called the decision to compensate boat migrants a ‘farce’.
Also: proposals to ban social media for U16s - including a potential ban on virtual private networks, used to circumvent the Online Safety Act.
The news that the Home Office doesn’t know how many migrants are pretending to be children,
The case of a Filipino migrant who was funded to change sex by the NHS - before being given the right to stay in the UK,
And the think tank that has propelled Keir Starmer’s rise to power - Labour Together - using a PR firm to smear journalists investigating their funding.
Julia Hartley-Brewer broadcasts on Talk from Monday to Thursday, 10AM to 1PM.
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