Nobody will deal with migration until we leave international treaties, warns Rees-Mogg

SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Home Secretary’s announcements do not go far enough to deal with the migration numbers.

Speaking on GB News, he said: “Yesterday, the Home Secretary announced an end to the family asylum reunion rules in her latest bid to deter channel crossings.

“Ms Cooper is also promising a clampdown on students who are here on asylum claims, directly contacting tens of thousands of foreign students, warning them they face removal from the UK if they remain after their visas expire…

“It seems the now Home Secretary’s conversion to tightening asylum claims is rather a new one. Is the government really getting serious on asylum claims?

“This seems to me to be so confused in terms of policy making; that if you are entitled to be an asylum seeker then it’s quite hard to see why your wife isn’t in a similar position.

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“And either you believe lots of these asylum claims are valid and we should be taking them, in which case it almost certainly includes families, or they’re basically bogus, and we should be refusing the lot of them.

“It’s quite hard to see that the husband can come and not the wife.

“Fundamentally, we are not going to have a solution to this until we deal with the European Convention on Human Rights and the Refugee Convention, and neither the government that I supported before the last mention, nor this government are willing to draw that nettle.

“The problem for us as Conservatives is that we didn’t manage to solve it and I think nobody’s going to solve it until they say, Okay, we are going to pass laws that the judges will have to follow, because they’re not going to be overridden by the Human Rights Act, The European Convention on Human Rights and the Refugee Convention as brought into UK law.

“[Yvette Cooper] may get it, but she’s not willing to do what’s necessary. And this is what I think what Nigel Farage is saying is so interesting. Because he’s saying, not just Rwanda, send them back to Afghanistan and the Taliban said they’re willing to speak to him.

“That’s a degree of toughness that might actually solve the problem.

“My question is really, how squeamish of the British public? Because the Americans have been quite happy for people to go off to El Salvador putting cages.

“Will the British people accept that or is that too much red meat for them?”