Starmer in public row with most senior judge over Gaza immigration decision

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A judge had granted a Palestinian family the right to remain in Britain after they applied through a scheme designed for Ukrainian refugees, which both the prime minister and Conservative leader said was “wrong.” The Lady Chief Justice said she was “deeply troubled” about the remarks, adding that “both question and the answer” from Sir Keir and Mrs Badenoch were unacceptable. This is not just some legal loophole that can be closed, but requires a fundamental overhaul of our flawed human rights laws.” In last week’s PMQs, Sir Keir had said home secretary Yvette Cooper had got her team “working on closing this loophole” after the Tory leader questioned him about the tribunal’s findings, which she said were “completely wrong”. open image in gallery Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch criticised an immigration decision in last week’s PMQs Baroness Carr told reporters on Tuesday: “I think it started from a question from the opposition suggesting that the decision in a certain case was wrong, and obviously the prime minister’s response to that. He added: “This is especially the case with human rights-based cases, where judges have adopted increasingly bizarre and expansive interpretations of vaguely worded ECHR clauses.” open image in gallery Kemi Badenoch insisted that “parliament is sovereign” and politicians must be able to discuss matters of “crucial public importance” to the UK The family of six at the heart of the case brought up in the Commons – comprising a mother and father and their four children who were aged 18, 17, eight and seven in September – were displaced when their home in the Gaza Strip was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.