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Newscast

Starmer's Plan To Fight The Right On Migration

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, Sir Keir Starmer and Danish leader Mette Frederiksen published a joint article arguing for urgent modernisation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which has an impact on how a country can tackle illegal migration.

David Lammy is in Strasbourg with European counterparts, beginning negotiations to change how the continent’s main human rights treaty is interpreted by judges, following political pressure from right wing parties who are calling for a complete withdrawal from the treaty.

This comes just after the Trump administration’s security strategy hammered Europe, calling it weak, and warning of European decline and “civilisational erasure.”

Adam is joined by Henry Zeffman, chief political correspondent to discuss the domestic politics of revamping the treaty. Then, Tom Bateman, BBC state department correspondent joins for analysis of what Trump’s latest strategy means for European politics.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:06.3

Hello, no, it's not Sunday, it's Wednesday, but Henry Zephman is here.

0:10.3

Hi, Adam.

0:10.8

Hello.

0:11.5

Are you pumped for the World Cup?

0:13.2

I am, I actually struggled to express fully quite how excited I am for the World Cup.

0:18.2

I watched all two and a half hours or 25 hours of the draw extravaganza last Friday.

0:24.6

It was ridiculous, wasn't it?

0:25.9

It was truly preposterous.

0:27.8

But ultimately, we did get to the stage where we found out what matches I'm going to be waking up at all sorts of weird times of day and mostly night to watch in six months time.

0:39.0

So newscasters can get involved in our World Cup coverage, which we are kicking off, bo-boom, pun, already.

0:44.8

We still haven't got a name for this feature, but we want you to get in touch if you are living in or related to or from or have an interesting connection to any of the countries that are in the

0:54.8

World Cup. And there's quite a lot of them. And it's started off in fine form already.

0:59.5

Robert got in touch to say, I listen to Newscast every day. I'm English living in Ecuador.

1:04.4

I'm an 8-Switch town supporter. All the matches are generally in my time zone. It's coming

1:08.9

home, says Robert, a good pitch to be our

1:11.5

representative from Ecuador. And Perima says, hello newscast. I'm from Iran, which is going to the

1:17.0

World Cup next year, but I'm listening to you from Geneva in Switzerland. Does that still count?

1:22.2

Perima, yes. You have got a good call on being our Iranian superfan.

1:28.1

We also need a name for this item.

1:30.5

Fewer suggestions of names.

1:32.8

The emails have been heavier on people who've got good relations to countries.

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