Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to overhaul human rights laws which have blocked the removal of a string of foreign offenders from Britain's shores.
A group of "Red Wall" Labour MPs have told their Prime Minister to put his weight behind changes to how UK courts interpret the European Convention on Human Rights - which has meant that criminals from overseas can stay in the country for a series of highly controversial reasons.
Under the ECHR's Article 8, migrant criminals have been allowed to stay in the UK because their children would not eat foreign chicken nuggets, and because they would be "depressed" in their homelands.
The judgments have raised fears that courts are using overly broad readings of the ECHR - which has forced uproar from the "Red Wall".
Dan Carden, Jonathan Hinder, Jonathan Brash and Connor Naismith (left to right) have all urged their party leader to act
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Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash told The Telegraph that Ministers must "make sure the law is being applied in a way that is in our interests as a nation".
"It's a perfectly in-order thing to do - and to me, it's the right thing to do. They should be looking at all avenues," he said.
"The asylum system is broken, immigration is far, far too high and they're right to look at all the options to get the level of control we want.
"The British people want the Government they've elected to be able to decide asylum policy and for that policy to be enacted."
He added: "It's not an extreme view to say that we'd like good border control and sensible, proportionate levels of immigration... Anyone who thinks that's an extreme view frankly is out of touch with what the British people want right now."
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Article 8 judgments have raised fears that courts are using overly broad readings of the ECHR
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Though the Hartlepool MP did not go as far as calling for Britain to leave the ECHR entirely, he said it would be "sensible" to bring the country into line with countries like Denmark - which have significantly tightened up how their courts use the Convention.
His colleague Connor Naismith, MP for Crewe and Nantwich, said that the recent ECHR court rulings were eating away at voters' trust in politicians.
"People tell me that they don't feel like their politicians can really change things. The truth is they're not entirely wrong," he said.
"Artificial structures and outsourced decisions have limited our democracy - and the Prime Minister is right to take this on."
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Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to overhaul human rights laws which have blocked the removal of a string of foreign offenders from Britain's shores
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MPs are set to attend an ECHR briefing in Parliament in Monday with a leading barrister, which has been organised by fellow Red Wall-er Dan Carden, the MP for Liverpool Walton and a member of the more right-wing "Blue Labour" group.
That comes as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to review the rules in a bid to tighten the Article 8 loophole - which has also won the backing of Pendle & Clitheroe MP Jonathan Hinder.
He wrote in Politics.co.uk: "Yvette Cooper is right to at least be considering how some of its articles are being applied in the courts.
"When the voters say: 'We want the Government to reduce illegal migration,' it is entirely reasonable for them to think that the elected governments of these islands can deliver that."
