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WATCH: Tory MP hit with BRUTAL GB News grilling over Deportation Bill - 'You are falling short!'
May 7, 2025
Tory MP Matt Vickers has faced intense questioning on GB News over the Conservative Party's proposed Deportation Bill, with presenters challenging him on why his party won't leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).The grilling came as the Conservatives unveiled plans for a new bill that would disapply the Human Rights Act in immigration cases.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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What are you proposing, this deportation bill
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Tell us what's involved in that and what's that about. So it's game changing
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We're saying, as we did in office, that if you come to this country illegally, you should be detained and you should be removed
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We're saying that anybody who comes to this country should be subject to mandatory age verification
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i.e. we should use whatever tech and science we've got to check what age these people are
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But more than that, we're saying that if you commit a crime in this country at the moment
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if you commit a crime in this country, you've got to be sentenced to more than a year before you'll be deported
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We're saying if you commit a crime on our turf, you should be sent back to wherever you came from
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And the big problem with that has been the courts and the Human Rights Act. We're saying we should disapply the Human Rights Act when it comes to cases of deportation
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when it comes to cases of immigration. The Human Rights Act shouldn't count
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It should be about the law that's created in that place and it being served in the court properly
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We haven't heard Kenny Bidenock say that. I haven't. Have you heard her say that? Yeah, why have you fallen short of saying you'll leave the ECHR
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Why have you not said that? You've fallen short of that. So in terms of application, in terms of if you look at the cases that get tied up
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the chicken, well, chicken nugget gate, we saw the carry-on of a guy who should have been deported
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but made the case that his kids don't like foreign chicken nuggets and therefore he should get to stay
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We got to see the case of a paedophile who said if he was returned to his country, he'd face hostility
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These were Human Rights Act cases. These were cases that went in our domestic courts
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and were rejected on the grounds of human rights. We're saying we will disapply that
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This is going to remove that logjam. It going to allow us to deport those foreign criminals It going to allow us to get our immigration system fixed and fit for purpose But Matt I don really understand how you can disapply
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You know, you just say, we're applying it here, we're not applying it next week
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we're applying it the week after that. You're either in the ECHR or you're not in it
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The Human Rights Act is Britain's part in that, but actually the law should be decided by the guys in there
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The guys at the British public watching you this morning, they're electing people into Parliament to make the law
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That should be the law. It should be the law that British people want. It should be the law made by the people they send to Parliament
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not by somebody else hidden away, judges deciding what the law should and shouldn't be
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We're saying when it comes to immigration, when it comes to deportation, the law as it stands, as it's created by Parliament
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should be upheld, regardless of the Human Rights Act. If someone is up for deportation and they evoke the ECHR Article 8
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right to a family life, then you will struggle, and you know this, we've seen it before, haven't we, you will struggle
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ultimately fail, to get them on a plane to deport them out of this country
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You can't do any of that unless you elect the ECHR. We can. The Human Rights Act, what gives it effect in this country
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It's our domestic courts that are the problem in this situation. It is them who are having some of these really, really creative interpretations
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of the law and binding the two. We're saying that isn't going to be the case anymore
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We will not allow that. We will disapply the Human Rights Act. We'll make judges serve the law as it's meant to be served
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when it comes to immigration and deportation. That's entirely the right thing to do
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Interim judgments from Strasbourg would be disapplied. It's the right of the form
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