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Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 July 2025

Debate

European Convention on Human Rights

Contribution

My Lords, there have been gross distortions in the right-wing press in this country with respect to the right-to-family-life decisions. Nevertheless, some of those decisions have been astonishing. Is the remedy therefore not in our own tribunal’s interpretation, which perhaps needs some form of clarification, rather than in the difficult process of amending the convention?

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