Immigration Review of human rights for small boat arrivals

Ministers are reviewing how international human rights law is being applied to allow people to stay in the UK after entering by irregular means, Yvette Cooper has said.

- Kiran Stacey

The home secretary said she was looking into the implementation of article eight of the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to a family life and has been used by people to argue for their right to stay in the UK.

It is one of a range of actions Cooper is taking as she tries to bring down the record numbers of people crossing the Channel in small boats.

Yesterday she announced a crackdown on gig employers such as takeaways and barber shops who employed people without the correct visa status, and today she will host an international summit on organised migration crime in London.

The home secretary told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg: "There have been some cases that do raise some real significant concerns, and that is also about the way in which the immigration asylum system operates.