Deporting a backlog of foreign criminals will take decades at current rates for certain nationalities, a devastating new analysis shows. Prime Minister and former human rights barrister Sir Keir Starmer and his Attorney General Lord Hermer have both insisted Britain will never leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which is enshrined in domestic law in the Human Rights Act. Tory frontbencher Mr Philp said the new analysis showed Labour was ‘more interested in the supposed human rights of criminals than in protecting the British public’. ‘The Human Rights Act needs to be binned when it comes to immigration matters. ‘This Labour Government is deporting more foreign criminals than them.