Labour would never be so bold as to even suggest quitting the ECHR as a last resort to protect our borders
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ALTHOUGH Channel crossings are 15 per cent down on last year, even Rishi Sunak’s most fervent supporters would admit that the boats have not yet been stopped.
The PM has good progress to point to: a returns agreement with Albania, information-sharing with Turkey and the passing — in the teeth of ferocious opposition from Labour and the BBC — of the Illegal Immigration Bill.
But, for all the other measures, the Government’s key policy remains sending asylum claimants to Rwanda.
Left-wing lawyers and campaigners have repeatedly used European human rights laws to argue that is not safe as Rwanda could then send them on to countries where they face persecution.
The Lord Chief Justice disagrees: he said that Rwanda has no current return agreements of this kind in place, making that all but impossible.
But two other judges sitting with him at the High Court disagreed.
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So the flights remain grounded.
Rishi and Home Secretary Suella Braverman are now pinning their hopes on the Supreme Court seeing sense later this year, and overturning the decision.
Meanwhile, Home Office minister Robert Jenrick argues Britain could pull out of the European Court of Human Rights altogether if that’s what it takes.
As The Sun has long argued, ministers are right to consider quitting the ECHR as a last resort to protect our borders.
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Once thing is certain: Labour would never be so bold as to even suggest it — and will campaign hysterically against us taking back control once and for all.
Deadly blunder
NO group of police officers is more in need of protection than those operating on Northern Ireland’s front line.
It might not be in the grip of the spiral of the 1970s and 1980s when the Troubles were at their murderous worst.
But there remains a clear and present danger to any PSNI officers and workers from a rump of Republican terrorists for whom the war will never be over.
Proof of this was the near-fatal shooting by the “New IRA” of Det Chief Insp John Caldwell in February.
Which is why the mistaken release of the personal details of 10,000 PSNI staff is not only a catastrophic mistake.
It’s a shameful betrayal of brave men and women who have done so much to remake Northern Ireland and prevent a return to the dark days.
Change of Keir
THE Sun’s Give Us A Brake campaign is having such an impact that even eco-warrior Sir Keir Starmer is backing it.
Labour’s leader says other cities should not copy London’s hated Ulez scheme.
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Of course, his main motivation in saying this is to get elected.
But hard-up drivers will take help wherever they can find it.