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Vice President European Movement U.K., former Attorney General and MP for Beaconsfield from 1997-2019

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It's impossible to view the postings of Farage, without utter revulsion. He masquerades as a " reasoned commentator" on what he claims to be a national crisis linked to immigrants while claiming he deplores any lawlessness. Then he hints at more lawlessness if his warnings are
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Ten years ago this month that David Cameron dispensed with my services as AG. I had told him that his plans to scrap the HRA and threaten to leave the ECHR if it proved incompatible with his British Bill of Rights were unworkable and would not help solve our security or
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Dominic Grieve
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I have finally decided to get on X. There is a new era in politics and much of importance to be debated, particularly in respect of our relationship with our European neighbours. Please do follow.
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@RobertJenrick This is one of the most astonishing videos I have ever seen posted by a Conservative MP, let alone a candidate for the leadership. Most of it is twaddle, a series of promises of change that leaving the ECHR will do nothing to take forward.
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I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video. It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make. Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main
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The way the ECHR is applied may at times irritate and as in all human affairs no court will always be perfect in its reasoning and decisions. But the ECHR has done immense good throughout Europe. Precisely because it is a " living instrument", it has been able to promote human
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The confirmation yesterday at the Blenheim summit of the Government's full commitment to the ECHR is very good news and will greatly help our diplomatic relations and ability to influence our European partners on issues such as co-operation on dealing with illegal immigration.
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Jenrick provides no explanation as to how he would deal with the consequences of leaving the ECHR. It underpins our current relationship with the EU. Without it we will be unable to share data essential to commerce and security and ourTCA would collapse. The Good Friday agreement
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Putin's aggression against the Ukraine threatens us all. We now have Trump's vice presidential running mate telling us that Trump's policy on the Ukraine will be to appease Putin and reward his aggression. And we have Robert Jenrick telling us that he would vote Republican in
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His next argument is even odder. He claims that UKForces are being obliged to kill rather than detain on combat operations because the ECHR requires prisoners to be released. This is just wrong. The ECHR requires no such thing. Indeed there is a case called Hassan v U.K. at the
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3 months
Much to welcome in King's Speech with the acknowledgement that our relationship with the EU must be reset. The security relationship reset is the most urgent as, if Trump is elected, we face a collective crisis, unless he changes his approach to the Ukraine.
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I am perplexed as to why the government should be so fearful of a time limited youth mobility scheme.
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Dominic Grieve
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Stopping the criminal activity of rioters has been a textbook example of how the criminal justice system can demonstrate that criminals do not enjoy any impunity for their actions even when they feel empowered by being part of a mob. Central to it has been the speed with which
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Jenrick also claims that the ECHR allows terrorists to be on our streets. As I can think of no reason why a person suspected of terrorism can't be arrested and tried, I think he must be referring here to issues with deporting foreigners convicted of terrorism offences after their
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But we have lost influence through Brexit at precisely the time we need it most. Co-operation in Defence needs more than rhetoric and goes particularly to link ups in defence industries to streamline production against a background of national protectionism.
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Earlier this year a non party commission I chaired came up with suggestions. It can be found on I hope our proposals will be implemented. But to last they need some primary legislation. We must never return to the corruption of the Johnson era.
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Jenrick's examples are also left without detail and an mislead. Only one concerns a decision of of the European Court of Human Rights. That was Akindoyin Akinshipe. He was 15 when he committed his offence and 17 when released. His family ties were here. The court accepted that
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Also pleased to see the the Government wants to take steps to restore trust. But this is devoid of detail. There are very simple and easy things that can be done to achieve this, ranging from a truly independent ministerial ethics adviser to removing the PM's override of the
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So this aspect can't be divorced from the policy of improving trade and investment with the EU. But that starts to raise policy choices and realities that all parties avoided during the Election. The Government needs the courage to leads national conversation on this or there is
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@anandMenon1 @UKandEU @CSBarnard24 @jdportes @robfordmancs I am very sorry to read this. You have done exceptional work in bringing facts and analysis to a wide audience.
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Dominic Grieve
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@SecretHaggis @DavidCrabbUK @KymYSmith @RobertJenrick I have been busy all day and the video does indeed call for a detailed response. I will try providing one just as soon as time allows.
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