Another senior Labour figure has said Britain should 'decouple' from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to tackle the Channel migrant crisis.
Jack Straw, who was Labour home secretary between 1997 and 2001, warned the ECHR was being 'misused' in some legal cases to prevent migrant deportations.
'There is no doubt at all that the convention - and crucially its interpretation - is now being used in ways which were never, ever intended when the instrument was drafted in the late 40s and early 50s,' he told the Financial Times.
Mr Straw helped draft the UK's 1998 Human Rights Act, which enshrines the ECHR in UK law, as part of Sir Tony Blair's New Labour government.
But he said the 'use or misuse' of the convention was 'never anticipated when we were discussing in great detail how we incorporated human rights into British law in the mid-90s'.
