Kemi Badenoch has slammed Keir Starmer after it was revealed that a Palestinian family was granted the right to stay in the UK under a Ukrainian refugee scheme.
The Tory leader used her first question at PMQs to say that the court's decision was “completely wrong, it cannot be allowed to stand” and asked the Prime Minister if the Government will appeal.
Starmer replied: “I do not agree with the decision. She is right, it is the wrong decision. She hasn’t quite done her homework because the decision in question was taken under the last government.”
“It should be parliament that makes the rules on immigration, it should be the government that makes the policy, that is the principle and the Home Secretary is already looking at the legal loophole which we need to close in this particular case”.
The Tory leader used her first question at PMQs to say that the court's decision was “completely wrong, it cannot be allowed to stand” and asked the Prime Minister if the Government will appeal
However, Badenoch hit back once more saying: "Given this crazy decision and so many others, new legislation is needed to clarify the right to a family life in Article 8.
“I'm not talking about what he just said, I know Labour MPs don't understand much of what they're saying but the Prime Minister literally wrote a book on the European Convention on Human Rights.
“This is a situation where we need to put our national interest before the ECHR.”
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The family of six attempting to flee the Gaza strip have been allowed to join their brother in the UK after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights.
They applied for entry to the UK using the Ukraine Family Scheme to join the father’s brother, who has lived in the UK since 2007 and is a British citizen, but this was refused in May last year after the Home Office concluded the requirements of the scheme had not been met.
The family, who have been granted anonymity, had an appeal against the decision dismissed by a first-tier immigration tribunal judge in September.
The family were living in a Gazan refugee camp after their home was destroyed by an air strikeGETTYA further appeal has been allowed by upper tribunal judges on the grounds of Article 8 of the ECHR after a hearing in January.
The family, made up of a mother, father and four children aged seven to 18, were living in a Gazan refugee camp after their home was destroyed by an air strike.
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