Theresa May: We will rip up human rights laws if they ‘stop us from’ tackling terrorism : i News

Theresa May has vowed to tear up any human rights legislation which prevents the authorities from taking tougher action against terrorist suspects. Security and policing following the London Bridge attack dominated the final stages of the general election campaign. The Prime Minister told a Tory rally she was ready to scrap any laws that got in the way of preventing jihadis waging war on Britain. Evolving threat She said: “As we see the threat changing, evolving becoming a more complex threat, we need to make sure that our police and security and intelligence agencies have the powers they need.” She said she wanted to make it easier to deport foreign terrorist suspects and restrict their movements if there was not enough evidence to prosecute them. “If human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change the laws so we can do it,” she said.

Spending squeeze

Earlier the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, put himself at odds with her as he claimed that a planned spending squeeze on the Metropolitan Police could lead to the loss of thousands of front-line officers. The Prime Minister has insisted that the country’s largest force is “well-resourced”. Mr Khan said the force stood to lose between 3,400 and 12,800 constables, a reduction in strength of ten to 40 per cent, making it harder to foil future terrorist atrocities. He said the Met had been forced to find savings of £600m since 2010 and was now facing further cuts of £400m. And he warned that the force could lose another £700m a year under Conservative plans to change the police funding formula.
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