Rishi's ECHR battle at the Council of Europe
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Pauls and James Heal. |
| 0:25.8 | So Katie, today the Prime Minister is making a short visit to Iceland |
| 0:29.4 | to go see the Council of Europe and he's got a message and is all about migration. |
| 0:34.0 | Tell us about it. So this is Rishi on the world stage week |
| 0:38.4 | because you have Rishi Sinek heading to the G7 in Japan next. |
| 0:42.7 | Now I think what's interesting about the Council of Europe trip is |
| 0:45.6 | a PM does not typically need to go to the Council of Europe. |
| 0:49.5 | So Rishi Sinek choosing to go to this meeting in Iceland is yes in part you can |
| 0:56.2 | but I think a large part of the political reasoning and it's something I first reported |
| 0:59.9 | in the Times last week and there's plan to go there is relating to small boats so ultimately |
| 1:05.9 | cooperation to tackle the legal migration but specifically I think can appeal to this group |
| 1:11.8 | and is having meetings with the UCHR president there as a plan over rules 39. |
| 1:17.5 | And now that is the part of the current arrangement in Strasbourg which prevented the first |
| 1:22.8 | deportation flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda last summer and he's going to be calling for |
| 1:27.6 | reform with this. Now that is along with I think a wider appeal to other European leaders to |
| 1:33.3 | suggest that ultimately sphere rethink in terms of illegal migration and how best to tackle it. |
| 1:40.6 | Now I think this is interesting because there are of course some saying I've Rishi Sinek |
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