Under the plans, the home secretary will bring forward a bill to change how article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to family life, is applied in migration court cases. She said: "If the home secretary actually wants to cut illegal immigration, she should take up my offer to sit down with her and work on a plan that will actually stop the boats, rather than a few weak changes that will meet the approval of Labour MPs." The Refugee Council warned that the government would accrue a cost of £872m over 10 years as a result of the need to review asylum seekers' status to remain in the UK.
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