Britain reviews human rights laws in major shake-up of asylum policy |
By Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will overhaul its approach to human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive in the country illegally as part of a major shake-up of asylum policy to be set out on Monday.
Interior minister Shabana Mahmood will outline changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights will be interpreted by courts, the government said.
"These reforms will block endless appeals, stop last minute claims and scale up removals of those with no right to be here," Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement.
In what the government claims to be the most sweeping asylum policy overhaul of modern times, Mahmood will also announce........