#european-convention-on-human-rights

#european-convention-on-human-rights

I think it's really important that we have honesty in the way that we talk about human rights, and that we also have a recognition that the demonisation of migrants creating this idea that migration causes huge risks for the country can make the lives not just of migrants to the UK, but of ethnic minority UK citizens, very, very difficult.

We must free up our housing market, because a society where no one can afford to buy or move is a society where social mobility is dead. So I have looked at the stamp duty thresholds to see where we can change them. I have looked at the rates you have to pay to see if we can lower them. I have decided that we can't, because that simply wouldn't be enough. Conference the next Conservative government will abolish stamp duty.

With the Home Office, I have been putting military planners into their border command and into their planning for the future. We are looking at the potential use of military and non-military sites for temporary accommodation for the people who come across on these small boats that may not have a right to be here or need to be processed rapidly before we can decide whether or not they should say or whether or not we deport them,

The Migration Advisory Committee has proposed that the minimum income threshold for family visas be lowered from £29,000 to between £23,000 and £25,000 to ensure families can support themselves.

The open letter from nine EU states aims to reinterpret the European Convention on Human Rights to facilitate the expulsion of foreign national criminals, raising major concerns.