"Keir Starmer has said he will look at how international law is being interpreted by British courts in an effort to tackle small boats, which he branded Farage boats because of their increase in number since Brexit. Speaking after the Labour party conference, the prime minister signalled his unhappiness with how the European convention of human rights was being interpreted by judges making decisions about deportations."
"The prime minister blamed the impact of Brexit for the surge in the number of illegal Channel crossings. These are Farage boats, in many senses, that are coming across the channel, he said. Before leaving the EU, the UK was a signatory to the Dublin convention, which states that asylum seekers can be returned to the first member state they arrived in before their claims are considered."
"The number of small boat crossings have risen dramatically since Brexit was implemented in 2020, according to Home Office figures. More than 33,000 people have arrived in the UK so far this year, a record since data was first reported in 2018. I would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU, we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU and he told the country it would make no difference if we left."
The UK will review how British courts interpret international law and European Convention on Human Rights provisions to address small-boat Channel crossings and enable deportations. Brexit was blamed for the surge in illegal Channel crossings, described as Farage boats linked to the loss of EU return mechanisms such as the Dublin convention. Before exiting the EU, the UK participated in Dublin returns allowing asylum seekers to be returned to the first member state entered. Home Office figures record over 33,000 small-boat arrivals so far this year. Calls were made to ramp up bilateral returns, especially with France, while retaining ECHR membership and revisiting interpretation of Articles 3 and 8.
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