Labor's Law Chief has a passionate defense of the European human rights system mounted in the midst of calls to the UK to allocate completely to tackle illegal migration.
Attorney General Lord Hermer said that the UK should use the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights to 'celebrate' what it does.
He appeared before the mixed committee for human rights, he also said that Great -Britain should take 'National Pride' to have played a central role in setting up the led by Sir Winston Churchill.
Opposition critics, including Nigel Farage's Reform UK and some Tories want the UK to withdraw from the system, and claim to prevent ministers from expeling migrants.
Ministers evaluate how Article eight of the ECHR – the right to family life – applies to migration legislation.
Lord Hermer said it was good to carry out the assessment, but was on 'disinformation' about a specific case in which it was reported that an Albanian man could partly remain because of the aversion to his young son against foreign chicken nuggets. '
And he warned that if the UK left the Echr, there was 'no hope' to reach deals with abroad to take back migrants.
Attorney General Lord Hermer said that the UK should use the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights to 'celebrate' what it does.
Opposition critics, including Nigel Farage's Reform UK and some Tories want the UK to withdraw from the system, and claim to prevent ministers from expeling migrants.
He told Peers and MPS: 'On this 75th anniversary of the establishment of the convention … This is a time to celebrate.
'It is also a time to think about it, to think about the nature of the values ​​that are included in the convention, which I think are just as relevant today as it was formed.
“It is also a point of national pride; The Council of Europe founded under the leadership of Winston Churchill and many of the provisions drawn up by British lawyers, not least (later Tory Home Secretary) David Maxwell Fyfe.
“Although the Convention reflects universal values, they are a reflection of large, long -term British value recorded in our Common Law.”
The Attorney General said that the Minister of the Interior is 'fully the same' to carry out an evaluation towards the use of Article 8 in how it is applied to migration cases.
He said that a number of decisions have been reported in immigration ribunals on the basis of Article 8, the right to private and family life, which 'are able to suggest that it is not applied correctly or appropriately'.
He said to the committee: 'I want to make it clear in all my comments about decisions from a court that I have not categorically criticized judges.
'I think there is a real merit to check whether Article 8 is well understood and applied, because, as I said, you can have a very, very robust but fair trial in asylum and immigration context that is completely compatible with Article 8.
'We just have to check whether there is a correct calibration for Casework decisions.
“We may also have to check … that the government is robust in attractive decisions that we don't like, that there is a process strategy that meets that goal.”
He added: “There is clearly a lot of information, wrong information, which in the context of asylum and immigration is particularly picked up,” he said.
'Many of you will have heard about the idea that the courts have allowed a foreign national perpetrator to stay here because his child will miss Chicken McNuggets.
“That's the rounds. What the rounds don't do is that that case went to the Upper Tribunal, who categorically rejected it as an argument of Article 8. They rejected the claim.
'Courts will always make mistakes. That is why we have professional courts, and that is what happened here. '
