PMQs in full: Starmer says judge behind Gaza migrant ruling was wrong

A judge who granted Palestinian migrants the right to live in the UK after they applied through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees made the wrong decision, Sir Keir Starmer said. The Telegraph revealed a family of six seeking to flee Gaza were allowed to join their brother in Britain after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights. Sir Keir said he did not agree with the decision and the Government intended to close the “legal loophole”. The family had made their application through the Ukraine Family Scheme. The Prime Minister said during PMQs as he answered a question from Kemi Badenoch: “I do not agree with the decision. She is right, it is the wrong decision. She hasn’t quite done her homework because the decision in question was taken under the last government.” The Prime Minister said it “should be parliament that makes the rules on immigration, it should be the government that makes the policy, that is the principle and the Home Secretary is already looking at the legal loophole which we need to close in this particular case”. The family’s claim was initially refused by a lower-tier immigration tribunal on the basis that it was outside the Ukraine programme’s rules, and that it was for Parliament to decide which countries should benefit from resettlement schemes. However, Hugo Norton-Taylor, an upper tribunal judge, overturned that decision and granted the Palestinians’ appeal, allowing them to come to the UK on the basis of their Article 8 right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/12/politics-latest-news-pmqs-kemi-badenoch-keir-starmer/ #politics #pmqs #starmer #livestream