Dr Julian Lewis: Does the Minister agree with Oxford’s professor of constitutional law, Richard Ekins, who wrote on Sunday that the root of the problem is the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporating the European convention on human rights into our law, which

“enables courts to interpret legislation unreasonably, contradicting the will of Parliament.”

Will he revisit that legislation? We should not have these matters decided by unelected judges in Strasbourg.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Tom Pursglove): It is fair to say that we believe there is a legal basis for this policy and that at all times we will be compliant with our obligations under both the refugee convention and the ECHR, but my right hon. Friend will, of course, be aware that the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton (Dominic Raab), the Deputy Prime Minister, is taking forward a programme of reform in relation to the Human Rights Act, and will no doubt want to make his views known.]