Justice secretary urges overhaul of European convention on human rights
The Green party is calling for the Home Office to be broken up, with responsibility for immigration handed over to a new department.
Carla Denyer, the Green party’s co-leader, has published a report she commissioned saying it should be replaced by a Department for Population, Infrastructure and Immigration, and a Department for Community Security. She says:
Whether for it’s for work, for love, or to flee danger – people move, and it’s government’s job to make it work for us and our communities.
But decades of finger-pointing at migrants as a cover for government failure and neglect have broken this country’s relationship with migration – and the Home Office sits at the heart of the problem.
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