UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledges that his Labour government would "never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights" and will approach the issue of irregular migration "with humanity". Quitting the accord was an idea flirted with by Starmer's Conservative predecessor Rishi Sunak who, under pressure from his party's right flank, argued that "foreign courts" should not stop Britain from deporting migrants to Rwanda.
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00:00And this summit is an opportunity to set a new path on illegal migration, to transform
00:05the way that we work together on border security and law enforcement, and to say together no
00:12more.
00:13This government will not commit taxpayer money to gimmicks.
00:17We are here to serve our country and the national interest in pursuit of solutions that will
00:23actually deliver results.
00:26More than that, we will approach this issue with humanity and with a profound respect
00:33for international law.
00:35And that's why we scrapped the unworkable Rwanda scheme on day one.
00:41And it's why we will never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.