Some are calling for the UK to leave the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (Image: Getty )

       Britain's former chief Brexit negotiator has said the country should "take back control" from a European body that has been stopping "progress" for the UK Government in the fight to stop the boats.

       Lord Frost, who fought for the UK against mountains of Brussels red tape during Brexit, has said the country may be forced to reconsider its involvement with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

       The institution, which Lord Frost said had been important in the past, is now he believes making it "increasingly difficult to take fundamental decisions about the way this country is run".

       In the last two years left-wing lawyers seeking to challenge the British Government's Rwanada asylum seeker initiative have repeatedly gone to the France-based court seeking rulings to stop any planes from taking off.

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       And speaking to Spiked Lord Frost said Britain needed to "reestablish the fact that Parliament can legitimately go against international laws and treaties if it wishes to do so.

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       Home Secretary James Cleverly in Rwanda to re-affirm the UK's commitment to sending asylum seekers (Image: Getty )

       "These decisions will obviously have political consequences and we shouldn’t make them casually. But, in the end, parliamentary decisions are the supreme legal authority in the UK."

       Lord Frost's comments chime with those of Former Home Office minister Robert Jenrick, who served under sacked home secretary Suella Braverman.

       Mr Jenrick warned in December that those asylum seekers who had their claims rejected "appeal and frustrate their removal", with "many ultimately using" the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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       A significant faction of the Conservative Party have advocated for the UK to withdraw from the ECHR in order to prevent international courts from blocking deportations.

       However, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reluctant to go that far when putting forward his emergency legislation to address the Supreme Court judges' concerns about his Rwanda policy.

       And the Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the Government's Rwanda legislation was "the best Bill to get the job done", but insisted the ECHR "was not the issue" currently preventing deportation flights to Rwanda.

       Recalling his time as Prime Minister, Mr Cameron added: "If you're asking me my view about the ECHR, I will point you to the battle over prisoner votes where the ECHR said I had to do something. I said 'no I don't', and they backed down."

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