I heard that interview and I was very happy with Starmer's comments.
Here is what the Telegraph reports:
"Labour has refused to back Theresa May’s plans to tear up human rights laws if they get in the way of tackling terror.
Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary and former Director of Public Prosecutions, said human rights legislation is not a barrier in the fight against extremism.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn said terrorism would not be beaten by "ripping up our basic rights and our democracy".
Mrs May said she would toughen anti-terrorism measures and not let human rights laws stand in her way in the fight against terror as she put security at the heart of her election campaign on Tuesday evening."
Quote from May, which the Telegraph did not use:
“... I mean doing more to restrict the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they present a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court.
“And if human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change those laws so we can do it.â€
That is exactly not the point of the Human Rights laws. May's comments were to me unbelievable. As if she has no idea why those laws exist, and why they are pointless if they can be torn up at will by executive order.
We have a problem with some people who wish to deny us our human rights, so she wants to remove those rights where it suits her.
Previous anti-terror measures have already been widely misused in the policing of protests.
Only a fool would give May or any other PM carte blanche on this.
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