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Keir Starmer has urged European leaders to reform human rights laws to make it easier to deport illegal migrants – directly in line with what The Whip Line has been demanding for months.

Some of what he’s saying tracks with what I’ve written here – word for word.

You can read the BBC’s report on it here.

What Starmer’s saying is almost a point-for-point adoption of a strategy laid out here on The Whip Line on November 4.

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An honest future-direction message

“Vox Political is nearing the end of its fourteenth year, and I want to be honest with you: the online advertising model that kept the site free to read has deteriorated so sharply that it can no longer sustain the work. 

This is not a reflection on the readership; it is a structural shift affecting small publishers everywhere.

Rather than quietly winding down, I’m giving you clear notice: Vox Political will close at the end of the year unless something dramatically changes. The good news is that The Whip Line already exists, is reader-funded, and is growing. That is where I can continue producing the journalism you value, free from the chaos of advertiser algorithms.

If you want the work to continue, please join me there. Free and paid subscriptions are available, but please remember it is the paid subscriptions – monthly and annual – that directly fund the reporting.”

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Let me explain:

What’s happening now is almost exactly the direction for which I’ve been arguing since that earlier article.

I have stated repeatedly that the sensible path was not to pull the United Kingdom out of the European Convention on Human Rights, but to negotiate reforms within it so that migration cases could be handled more efficiently without sacrificing core liberties.

That is precisely what Starmer is now doing.

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