City of London Police Horses by PC Matt Hone. Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. In her speech in Slough on the 6th June, the prime minister said that she was examining how to make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and to increase controls on extremists who are thought to represent a threat but who cannot be prosecuted for lack of evidence. In other words, how to circumvent the legal system in the case of those who the authorities have decided, but cannot prove, are terrorists.
Such arbitrary and authoritarian behaviour would be a clear breach of this country’s obligations as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, but, nothing daunted, Theresa May, no friend of the Convention when she was Home Secretary, added: “And if human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change those laws so we can do it”.
Such arbitrary and authoritarian behaviour would be a clear breach of this country’s obligations as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights.
