Shadow Home Sec: Leave ECHR to fix small boats

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the UK should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, arguing it would allow rapid deportation of people arriving illegally and act as a deterrent to small boat crossings.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's very simple. We need to come out of the ECHR, the European Convention on Human Rights.

00:04Doing that would enable us to deport all illegal immigrants who arrive here within a week.

00:09And the deterrent effect of that means pretty quickly people would stop attempting the crossings

00:14in the first place. We saw just yesterday about 700 people we think illegally crossed the channel.

00:19It's completely unacceptable. We've seen other countries fix this like Australia about 12 or

00:2313 years ago with a similar immediate deportation policy. It worked in Australia and it would work

00:29here.

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