Tory Chief Indicates Additional Agreement Withdrawals Might Boost Removals

Any future Conservative administration could be open to dismantle additional international treaties as a method to deport people from the UK, according to a key political figure speaking at the start of a conference focused nearly entirely on migration strategy.

Proposal to Leave Rights Treaty

Delivering the initial of a pair of speeches to the assembly in Manchester, the Conservative head officially set out her plan for the UK to quit the European treaty on human rights as one element of a wider bonfire of protections.

Such measures involve an end to assistance for migrants and the right to take migration rulings to courts or legal challenge.

Leaving the European convention “represents a necessary move, but not enough on its own to accomplish our objectives,” she stated. “Should there are further treaties and laws we need to amend or revisit, then we shall do so.”

Possible Exit from UN Convention

A future Tory administration would be open to the possibility of changing or leaving other international agreements, she said, raising the possibility of the UK withdrawing from the UN’s 1951 asylum agreement.

This plan to leave the European convention was revealed shortly before the event as part of a sweeping and at times draconian package of immigration-control measures.

• One commitment that every refugees arriving by unofficial means would be sent to their own or a third nation within a seven days.
• A further initiative involves the formation of a “deportation unit”, billed as being patterned on a semi-militarised border body.
• The unit would have a mandate to deport 150,000 individuals a annually.

Extended Removal Measures

During a address immediately after, the shadow interior minister said that if a non-citizen in the UK “shows racial hatred, including prejudice, or supports radicalism or terrorism,” they would be deported.

This was not entirely clear if this would pertain solely to people convicted of a offence for such actions. The Tory party has already pledged to remove any UK-based foreign nationals convicted of almost all the very minor violations.

Judicial Obstacles and Funding Increase

The shadow home secretary detailed particulars of the new removals force, explaining it would have twice the budget of the current arrangement.

It would be able to take advantage of the elimination of numerous entitlements and paths of challenge for foreign nationals.

“Stripping away the legal obstacles, that I have described, and doubling that budget means we can remove 150,000 individuals a annually that have no legal right to be here. That is three-quarters of a million over the course of the next government.”

NI Challenges and Platform Review

The speaker said there would be “particular difficulties in Northern Ireland”, where the ECHR is included in the Belfast agreement.

The leader indicated she would task the shadow Northern Ireland secretary “to review this matter”.

The speech contained zero proposals that had not previously revealed, with the speaker repeating her message that the group needed to take lessons from its last election defeat and use time to put together a unified agenda.

The leader continued to criticise a previous mini-budget, saying: “The party will never repeat the economic irresponsibility of expenditure pledges without saying where the money is to be sourced.”

Focus on Immigration and Security

Much of the addresses were focused on migration, with the shadow minister in especial employing significant parts of his address to list a sequence of illegal offences committed by refugees.

“It is disgusting. We must do whatever it requires to stop this madness,” he said.

The leader adopted a similarly firm stance in places, saying the UK had “tolerated the extremist religious ideology” and that the nation “cannot import and accept principles hostile to our own”.