I came across another very good recent Evening Standard piece by Leith titled <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/stop-this-futile-hullabaloo-over-migrants-7835994.html" rel="nofollow">'Stop this futile hullabaloo over migrants'</a>.
From it:
<blockquote>"May is still smarting, it seems, from her humiliation last year when her flagship example of human rights law gone mad — the immigrant whose deportation was thwarted on the grounds that he owned a cat — turned out to be imaginary.
The law responsible for that incensing imaginary example — Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, promising the right to a family life — remains on her hit-list.
Last year Article 8 was successfully used by 185 foreign prisoners to appeal against deportation. No doubt some of those were bad findings, but — with maybe three-quarters of a million illegal immigrants estimated to be living here — the existence of Article 8 is hardly the pressing problem of the age. This is pure politics."</blockquote>
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