It’s better late than never for Kemi to back Britain over international law

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right to insist we should be putting British interests above international law, especially when the ECHR forces us to keep foreign criminals in our country rather than sending them home.

Her intervention comes hot on the heels of a series of crazy decisions by immigration judges allowing overseas-born criminals to stay in our country for the most trivial of reasons, such as their son only liking British chicken nuggets or a Pakistani paedophile missing his children, even though he can only see them under supervision.

There is also the case of a Nigerian woman denied asylum eight times who has just won ninth time round after joining the UK wing of what’s regarded as a terrorist organisation in her home country. This is despite the judge’s acceptance that the woman had only joined Indigenous People of Biafra “in order to create a claim for asylum”.

Again and again, judges are flying in the face of common sense and the majority view, citing the criminals’ right to family life over any of their victims’ rights. It is as though these judges are rubbing our noses in international legal frameworks to tell us plebs that we can never really reclaim our sovereignty, despite voting .

Being in charge of your own affairs, and deciding who can and cannot stay in our country, is the nuts and bolts of governance. But lawyers and judges are using international law to pursue their own radical globalist agendas that run counter to our own sense of fairness or the decisions of our democratically elected leaders.

Chief Justice Lady Carr even had the arrogance to criticise both the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition for their justified criticism of the recent judgment saying a Gazan family could use asylum rules intended for Ukrainian refugees, potentially opening the flood gates to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to settle here.

Far from cowering before the Chief Justice, I should think that is exactly what our MPs are elected for, to challenge the decision of judges who are wilfully using international law to impose their own globalist interests above ours.

Frankly, activist lawyers are getting too big for their boots, seeking to tie us down with legalese and reduce the ability of any political party to deliver on what its electors want.

At last, Mrs Badenoch is saying that we should consider leaving the ECHR, which is the network providing so many of these witless decisions in favour of foreign criminals, bogus asylum seekers and economic migrants.

She should wholeheartedly make this an election pledge, putting clear blue water between her and the Lawyer-in-Chief Sir .

It is Starmer who recruited his legal buddy Lord Hermer as Solicitor General, from where he appears to be pursuing a nakedly anti-British agenda.

The most egregious example being the pointless decision to give up the strategic Chagos Islands, thus annoying our top ally America, plus handing over between £18billion and £ 50billion over 99 years for the privilege of doing so at a time when Britain is struggling to find the money to raise our defence expenditure to the required minimum of 2.5%.

This reckless decision has been made purely to appease a panel of international judges, one of whom has direct links to the Chinese government, which stands to benefit most from this strategic own-goal. Clearly, Leftie lawyers are not acting in our best national interests and should be removed promptly from the heart of government.

This use of supra-nation legal entities to bind our national decision making was the brain-child of that other lawyer Prime Minister Tony Blair and should have been repealed by the when they got back into power in 2010.

But top are part of this same global liberal elite and connived to keep this legislation on our statute books, leading us to the ludicrous situation now when we can’t even deport foreign criminals because of spurious claims to human rights.

The problem is that Kemi Badenoch is now waking up to this fundamental question of who rules Britain, but when she was in power she very much dragged her feet on this issue, reluctant to suggest leaving the ECHR, even when her colleague Robert Jenrick was pushing for it.

I am far more convinced by who has for much longer called for us to exit the ECHR and made it a clear plank of Reform policies.

Sadly, it seems as though Badenoch may be using her latest conversion to win back a few votes from the electoral juggernaut pushing her party into third place. I hope I’m wrong because Britain needs to urgently win back its freedom.