Home secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out sweeping changes to human rights legislation as part of a package aimed at convincing the public that Sir Keir Starmer has a credible plan to dramatically cut clandestine crossings into Britain.
New legislation to modify the interpretation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees all people a right to family life, will be announced on Monday.
The Home Office said it would do this by giving more weight in human rights law to the “public interest” of removing foreign criminals and those who had entered the country illegally, although the government did not provide more information on how this would be achieved.