Reform UK's Treasury spokesman reveals how conversations he had while he sat as a Conservative MP mean he will never trust the Tories over the ECHR
We have known for decades that the European Convention of Human Rights – or the Criminal's Charter, as I call it – allows foreign terrorists, murderers and rapists to stay in the country.
That alone should be enough to convince the Government to leave the treaty and the activist European judges that enforce it.
But in case anyone still needed convincing, the Home Office has released another damning statistic about the cost of migrants exploiting the ECHR in just one year alone.
It estimated that the 34,000 people who made Article 8 ECHR claims last year will cost £5 billion over the course of their lifetime.
And it’s just the tip of the iceberg when you consider the hundreds of thousands of claims over the last few decades.
So, not only is the ECHR leaving British people less safe, it’s also bankrupting Britain.
Tens of billions of pounds of taxpayer money is being wasted on people who simply should not be here.
That money could have been used to spend more on defence or to cut taxes – but after decades of failure, it’s being p**sed up the wall.
Remember that when Andy Burnham inevitably comes to raise your taxes.
The Tories won’t fix this – they were part of the problem. I know, having seen the party up close, that many Tory MPs regard the ECHR as sacred.
They refused to leave the ECHR despite myself and others, like Suella Braverman, campaigning to do so.
Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf will introduce legislation to leave the ECHR as one of the first acts of a Reform Government.
By deporting every illegal migrant and blocking the Boriswave from remaining in the country, we can finally bring back common sense and put the British people first.
Not only will it make the country safer, but better off, too.