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The Home Secretary is drawing up plans to change the law to stop international human rights rules from being used as "loopholes" to allow criminals to avoid deportation. Loading audio...

LBC understands that Yvette Cooper is looking to narrow down the criteria used by judges, amid fears that the current definition of "exceptional circumstances" is too broad.

She is currently reviewing how certain parts of human rights laws are applied after a string of cases where tribunal judges granted people to stay in the UK for dubious reasons under the pretence of these laws.

Controversial cases included an Albanian criminal who judges said was allowed to stay in the UK partly because it was claimed that his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets - this was later overturned by higher

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