Sunak faces ultimatum to cease European court docket blocking Rwanda deportation flights

Conservative MPs are getting ready to ship an ultimatum to Rishi Sunak that he should sort out Britain's membership of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

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It follows Appeal Court judges ruling yesterday blocking the flights to Rwanda on the idea of interpretations of the ECHR by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg which many Tory MPs imagine has been "politicised".

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Express.co.uk has learnt that various senior Conservative MPs will now press the Prime Minister to maintain his phrase when he mentioned he would "do what is necessary" to cease the boats.

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Among these believed to be concerned are former minister Sir John Hayes who chairs the influential Common Sense Group and Danny Kruger, the founding father of the New Conservatives group.

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It comes as endurance is working out over the small boats disaster with the summer time months anticipated to convey document numbers of unlawful migrants throughout the English Channel to Kent.

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Mr Kruger, a former Government particular adviser who's now the MP for Devizes, advised Express.co.uk that Mr Sunak can be given three choices by Conservative MPs.

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First, can be to comply with the instance of Winston Churchill when he opened discussions on the unique ECHR to provide you with a brand new settlement which ends the facility of the court docket in Strasbourg.

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Mr Kruger mentioned: "He could well follow the example of Churchill to call an international conference.

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"There can be different international locations who're having equal issues with the court docket in Strasbourg and its ridiculous, politicised rulings, though perhaps the issue is that Britain takes them extra critically than others."

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Second, is to introduce legislation which would allow the UK to ignore Strasbourg rulings on migration matters.

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Mr Kruger pointed out that this has already been achieved with the Strasbourg court's rulings that prisoners should get the vote which the UK ended up ignoring.

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He said: "While we have been in talks with the ECHR about votes for prisoners we didn't give prisoners the vote so in idea we might ship individuals to Rwanda."

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The third option is to withdraw from the ECHR altogether, which a number of Tory MPs are pressing for the Conservatives to have in their next election manifesto.

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Mr Kruger noted that many human rights are already protected in British legislation including the idea that a refugee should not be sent back to a country where they would be persecuted.

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However, rightwing MPs pushing for a change will not have the backing of Boris Johnson who used his Daily Mail column today to say that option would be "too divisive".

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But a growing number of Conservative MPs particularly in Red Wall seats or ones affected by having local hotels packed with migrants are now pushing for a radical solution with the ECHR.

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Already, Stoke North MP Jonathan Gullis, Ipswich MP Tom Hunt and Dover MP Natalie Elphicke have written for Express.co.uk looking for a change in the relationship with the ECHR.

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Mr Hunt, deputy chairman of the Common Sense Group, mentioned: "The time has come to develop a radical plan B in case we don’t get the result we want. Everything have to be on the desk, together with leaving the ECHR."

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Mr Gullis, who tried to bring forward a bill to end the Strasbourg court's decision-making over migration issues, said: "

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For too lengthy, the ECHR has pissed off the desire of the Government and the British individuals, grounding flights to Rwanda, and stopping the deportation of international murderers, rapists, and terrorists.

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"At the next General Election, the Conservatives must put leaving the ECHR in the manifesto so we can deliver what we promised in 2016 and 2019, taking back control of our laws and our borders."

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Ms Elphicke, writing from the entrance line the place the migrants are touchdown in Kent, described the smugglers as "an industrial scale multi-billion pound criminal enterprise that has seen more people brought into Dover through small boats than the entire population I represent. It’s seen countless lives lost and missing in the Channel."

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