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All sorts of other parts of our lives are protected.

Our freedoms are protected by the CHR.

It's like the ultimate backstop, if you like, for our human rights.

The Convention is a living instrument. It is the final safeguard of individual rights and freedoms

across our continent. It's been a criticism of Kirstommer and its government since day one,

that they're too ready to kind of lean to the right and meet reform in its territory.

Is rolling back human rights law really the way to tackle the far right?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Pippa Kriera, the Guardian's political editor and host of our Politics Weekly UK podcast. It's great to have you with us, Piffa. Thanks from dialing in from Westminster. Thanks for having me. You're going to get all the action in the office, colleagues walking fast, Big Bangbing in the background, doors banging and shufflings of papers and stuff. So forgive, please bear with us. The more the merrier.

So Pippa, we've had Kierstama, the Prime Minister, of writing an op-ed in the pages of the Guardian alongside his Danish counterpart, as well as two of his senior ministers off to Strasbourg, making the

case for human rights reform. Walk me through the case that the government is making today.

So all of this, Lucy, comes back down to immigration and the fact that as an issue,

it has risen up the political agenda in recent years and has sort of almost been turbocharged

by the arrival or the re-arrival on the scene of Nigel Farage and the

soaring popularity of Reform UK. Immigration is now one of the top two issues that people say

they care about. And it's certainly the case that Farage has capitalised on the arrival over the

channel of migrants arriving in small boats and of the large numbers of

increases in net migration under Boris Johnson's government, which saw people coming from Ukraine

and Hong Kong as well as other parts of the world, but which ended up producing record

high figures. And what this government is trying to do is to get a grip on the system

because so many people, they say, feel that it isn't working, that Britain doesn't have

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