Raab intent on breaking another international agreement

 From today's Prime Minister's question time:

Sir Edward Leigh 

(Gainsborough) (Con)

Q10. Even if an illegal migrant is stopped on a French beach, he will simply come back the next day as no one is ever arrested. Will the Deputy Prime Minister ensure that we remove all pull factors for illegal migration by using his new Bill of Rights so that we have the legal power to arrest, detain and deport illegal migrants, and, for instance, have a review about a national identity card so that people do not just vanish and never get deported? (902238)

The Deputy Prime Minister [Dominic Raab] 

I totally agree that we need to strain every sinew to stop this appalling trade in misery. There is no silver bullet, although I think the agreement the Home Secretary made with her French opposite number will help, and we are embedding UK officials with their French counterparts for the first time. My right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) is right to say that the Bill of Rights can also help, not least in preventing interim orders from the Strasbourg Court from being recognised in UK courts. On ID cards, we already have e-visas for people coming to visit and live in the UK, and they act as digital evidence of a person’s immigration status. What is clear, however, is that we will have to do all these things in the teeth of opposition from Labour Front Benchers.

Yesterday, on Radio 4's Law in Action, Robert Spano, the president of the ECHR until last month, was firm in his opinion that the European Convention on Human Rights laid a duty on UK courts to have regard to rulings from Strasbourg, including interim orders. Dominic Raab's proposed legislation runs counter to this and would thus seek to break an international treaty which we ourselves took a leading part in framing. Added to the situation in Northern Ireland, this is one more move which must damage our hard-won reputation for integrity and trust.

A further thought is that Sir Edward must have signed up to the 2010 Conservative manifesto which promised to put an end to Labour's ID card scheme. Was he crossing his fingers behind his back when he did so?