Time to put British interests before international laws

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right to insist we should be putting British interests above international law, especially when the European Convention on Human Rights forces us to keep foreign criminals in our country rather than sending them home.

- Tim Neward

Her intervention comes hot on the heels of a series of crazy decisions by judges allowing overseas-born criminals to stay in the UK for the most trivial of reasons, such as their son only liking British chicken nuggets or a paedophile missing his children, although he can only see them under supervision.

There is also the case of a Nigerian woman denied asylum eight times who has just won ninth time round after joining the UK wing of what's regarded as a terrorist organisation in her home country. This is despite acceptance the woman had only joined Indigenous People of Biafra "in order to create a claim for asylum".

Again and again, judges are flying in the face of common sense and the majority view, citing the criminals' right to family life over any of their victims' rights. It is as though these judges are rubbing our noses in international legal frameworks to tell us plebs that we can never really reclaim our sovereignty, despite voting Brexit.