Keir Starmer has urged European leaders to modernise “the interpretation” of the European Convention on Human Rights – to prevent asylum-seekers using it to avoid deportation.

The “current asylum framework was created for another era” and should “evolve to reflect the challenges of the 21st century”, the prime minister said, in a joint article with Danish PM Mette Frederiksen in The Guardian .

Ahead of today’s Council of Europe summit, the two leaders are signalling their belief that modernising the ECHR is a better way to tackle the shared challenge of the migrant crisis than plans by right-wing parties to dispense with the 75-year-old treaty altogether.

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“Human rights campaigners, Labour peers and some MPs” have “condemned” the government for calling f

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