Sir Keir Starmer looks increasingly like the last man standing against a growing Westminster cross-party consensus. It demands new home-made laws to replace outdated international treaties and halt the tide of small boats washing up in Dover.

After a summer being hammered by Reform UK, who were abetted by the Conservatives, the public is crying out for radical reform of migration policy, even as ministers insist that gradual and targeted changes will bring the numbers down.

So far the Government has also insisted that withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) would hinder, not help, that process. But, in the latest blow to Starmer’s position on Monday, the right-leaning Policy Exchange think tank claimed that leaving the Convention would not jeopardise peace in Nort

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