
Legal Loophole Allows Palestinian to Bypass UK Entry Ban—the First of Many?
British Shadow Home Secretary warns that the ECHR ruling risks “opening the floodgates,” potentially allowing Palestinian refugees to relocate to the UK.

British Shadow Home Secretary warns that the ECHR ruling risks “opening the floodgates,” potentially allowing Palestinian refugees to relocate to the UK.

A new report backed by senior Labour voices and leading lawyers takes apart Starmer’s argument for staying tied to Strasbourg.

Her first major intervention has put the country’s equalities watchdog on a collision course with growing public and political demands for tougher border controls.

The founders of the Council of Europe saw the need for an international organisation dedicated to protecting human rights. But there were other options back then, and there surely are now.

Signatories to the Convention must “abide by the final judgement of the court in any case to which they are parties.” Plans for an updated Bill of Rights offer no way around the fact that final rulings from Strasbourg have binding force in UK law.