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Podcast: The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show
Episode: Illegal migrants awarded £500k in compensation after phones were seized | Benedict Spence and Baroness Claire Fox on ANOTHER migrant ‘farce’
Description: Benedict Spence, conservative commentator, and Baroness Claire Fox, independent peer and director of the Academy of Ideas, discuss how the ECHR is causing more illegal migrant hand-outs in court. High court judges ruled that the police seizure of asylum seekers’ phones amounted to a violation of European Human Rights Law, in contravention of article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article eight outlines the right to a private and family life. The phones were seized as the migrants came to the country, enabling the police to gather evidence about any contact betw...