Starmer won't stop Gazans settling in Britain, he fears desertion from the Muslim vote too much- Kelvin MacKenzie

Just a throwaway line I should point out that the immigration judge who made the decision, Hugo Norton-Taylor, is the son of a Guardian journalist. The apple never falls far from the tree.

He granted the family, a mother, father and four children aged seven to eighteen, permission to stay under our old friend the European Convention of Human Rights. Does that mean all two million Gazans can make their way here?

You can hear human rights lawyers planning to buy that big house in Hampstead right now.

Starmer needs to scrap ECHR and failing that say only Ukrainians will be allowed in. The reason he has kept quiet about this shocking and dangerous judgment is that all of Gaza is Muslim and he will be fearful that he will lose their vote in the next General Election as he did in the last.

So, we have a PM who doesn’t act for the majority but will bow to Islam. I don’t remember that in his manifesto do you?

I have done a little research and in Africa alone these are the following war zones: Bukina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (on TV most nights) Libya, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.

It’s not looking too peaceful in Nigeria, Mali or Ethiopia either. Under the Norton-Taylor decision all people in war zones who had a relative here could be granted a right to stay.

To give the Home Office credit (and I don’t say that too often) they have been fighting the application. At the first immigration tribunal the judge supported them and then along came Norton-Taylor who said they did not comply with the Ukrainian rules but their situation was ‘’so compelling and compassionate’’ that it should be granted anyway.

His verdict was that this family’s situation was so ‘’extreme and life threatening’’ that it outweighed the public interest of the rules on entry to the UK.

That is untrue. Hopefully the war in Gaza is now at end. They have survived 18 months of battles and can rebuild their lives. Why should it be our responsibility to take in every family caught up war?

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We are small nation off the continental shelf. We haven’t the space, the doctors, the homes, the schools, the transport or the jobs to open our arms to the world.

These immigration judges don’t seem to understand this. Further, we have a Prime Minister who languishes in legal parlance and decision making. So instead of being angry like you and me over the Gazan family, he stays schtum.

Starmer has no natural umbilical cord to the voter. It was just luck- and a bloody awful series of Tory administrations- which bought him to power. He will be thrown out with the same majority he was thrown in.

What on earth is going on in these immigration courts. It’s as though they have gone for UDI- Universal Declaration of Independence.

As I pointed out yesterday, there are multiple cases going on which defy common sense.

1) The Albanian criminal who could stay because his son didn’t like Albanian chicken nuggets.

2) The jailed Pakistani paedo who could stay because his children will miss him.

3) A Caribbean woman who is fighting to stay claiming her husband doesn’t like the heat or the food in Grenada.

Starmer seems to spend quite a lot of time outside the country receiving the nickname Never Here Keir.