HATE preachers and terror suspects will be stripped of benefits in the future, Theresa May told MPs yesterday. The Home Secretary said lessons were learnt from the 12-year struggle to get rid of Abu Qatada. Mrs May said Justice Secretary Chris Grayling was reforming the legal aid system to stop terror suspects claiming huge costs, while Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith was investigating how to make it harder for the likes of Qatada to claim. She said the Immigration Bill will make it easier to deport foreign nationals.. Mrs May said: "That Bill will stop illegal immigrants accessing services to which they are not entitled, it will make it easier to remove foreign nationals, it will make it harder for them to prolong their stay with spurious appeals, and it will make clear to the courts once and for all that foreign nationals who commit serious crimes shall, other than in exceptional circumstances, be deported." She said Qatada would have been thrown out but for a change in the rules. She blamed a "crazy interpretation of human rights laws" for blocking his exit. And she refused to rule out withdrawal from the court based in Strasbourg, France. Mrs May said: "Qatada would have been deported long ago had the European Court not moved the goalposts by establishing new, unprecedented legal grounds."
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:18:30 +0000
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