Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats, just as Giorgia Meloni won’t nor Emmanuel Macron, not that the president of France seems inclined to do so.
No president or prime minister will be able to take back control of their borders until, as O’Flynn states in today’s Coffee House, they leave the European Court of Human Rights. The Court, aided and abetted by its allies in individual countries, is now wilfully interfering with government policy. And in the process it is endangering the lives of Europeans.
You may remember an article written in these pages a week ago by Andrew Tettenborn, professor of law at Swansea Law School. It was titled ‘If France can ignore the ECHR, why can’t we?’
Tettenborn described the case of a man known only as ‘MA’, a 39-year-old Uzbek exile, whom the French intelligence service considered ‘radicalised’ and ‘very dangerous’ on account of his Islamic extremism, which he denies. The man had fled Uzbekistan after facing criminal proceedings in 2015 and ended up in France having been denied refugee status in Estonia.
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