You say the HRA should be amended. Can you explain how the amendment would allow deportations in the case you mention? Surely it would just result in long and expensive appeals to Europe, where you would lose. And then what?

And regardless, human rights are not something you can go around selectively removing from groups of people like immigrants and criminals – they are universal and belong to everyone, or they are meaningless. And they most especially apply to groups it is easy to victimise because they are exactly the people most likely to need them.

Perhaps you would like to be clearer about what other rights you intend to remove and from who? And can you explain how this would impact on ECHR obligations? Would you just revert to the situation of Britons having to appeal all the way to Europe to force the British government to accept these human rights obligations?

And if so, is that because you really want to set up another UK Vs Europe clash to promote a eurosceptic agenda?