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The Home Secretary stopped short of declaring the Government should quit the European Convention on Human Rights.
But she warned yesterday that the Government will do "whatever it takes" if Strasbourg prevents the UK from ending the Channel migrant crisis.
Mrs Braverman branded the European Court of Human Rights, which oversees and enforces the treaty, "interventionist" and a "politicised court", accusing it of "thwarting" the first deportation flight to Rwanda The Home Secretary admitted key aspects of the Illegal Migration Bill the Tory plan to end the small boats crisis cannot be effective until migrants are deported to Rwanda.
Mrs Braverman, who declared her support for quitting the ECHR during the Conservative leadership race, said: "The Strasbourg court is a politicised court.
"It's been expanding upon national sovereignty.
"Last year we saw very plainly how the Strasbourg court thwarted our attempts for flights to take off to Rwanda through an opaque last-minute process which undermined the decisions of this government." Asked if she wanted the UK to quit the ECHR, she said: "My personal views are clear. As I said, it's a politicised court. It's interventionist. It's treading on the territory of national sovereignty.
"But no one's talking about leaving the ECHR right now. We are working to deliver our plan. We've enacted landmark legislation. We are confident in the lawfulness of our agreement with Rwanda.
"I'm confident in its lawfulness and we hope the Supreme Court agrees with us. And, pending that outcome, we will be doing whatever it takes to ensure that we can stop the boats."
Britain's broken asylum system is costing taxpayers around £3.966billion a year in accommodation and support for migrants.
Around 50,000 migrants are currently in hotels, with the Government converting former military bases and barges into asylum accommodation
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