ILPA: General Election, implications for immigration, asylum and nationality law and related areas 8 May 2015

ILPAThe Conservative party has a small, outright, majority.  A Conservative government will need the support of the right of the parliamentary Conservative party, a section hostile to both the European Union and to human rights legislation, to go it alone on any issue.  The Government will need to work with other parties to have a majority on matters where it does not have the support of the right of its parliamentary party and whether those parties will be minded to support it on such matters or to see it fail is as yet unknown.

The Conservative party manifesto commits the party to repealing the Human Rights Act 1998,  to introducing a British Bill of Rights and to curtailing the role of the European Court of Human Rights, in particular where deportation cases are concerned. Continue reading “ILPA: General Election, implications for immigration, asylum and nationality law and related areas 8 May 2015”