Overview

• British ministers report a growing coalition supporting efforts to reinterpret or amend the ECHR to make removals easier.
• Delegations from 16 countries met in Copenhagen this month to discuss how potential changes could be implemented.
• Backers named in reports include Austria, Belgium, Italy, Poland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia and the Czech Republic.
• The proposals would limit interim court measures that halt deportations pending lengthy appeals and expand discretion even where family‑life claims are raised.
• European relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds says the UK seeks to modernise interpretation rather than quit the treaty, as Conservative and Reform leaders continue to push for withdrawal.