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Lord Faulks (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 October 2025

Debate

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Contribution

My Lords, when the Government first came into power last year, great emphasis was placed by the Prime Minister and his Attorney-General on the importance of the rule of law and in particular respect for international law. We were told that there was no way the Government would revisit the Human Rights Act or seek to amend the ECHR. Attitudes appear to have changed. The previous home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said that the Government would bring in “a clear framework set out by parliament that then can be much easier for the courts to interpret”. I am not quite sure what that means, but she was talking about the application of human rights guarantees to various claims for asylum, in particular in relation to Article 8. It may have been a coincidence that this statement followed quite shortly after Reform had announced its policy on asylum claims.

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