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Ministers are to set out 'spicy' reforms to the Human Rights Act next month to make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab is expected to unveil the results of an independent review of the controversial legislation before Christmas.

Labour's Human Rights Act incorporates rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights in UK law.

It has survived in place despite Brexit, and has been blamed by ministers for frustrating attempts to remove those with no right to remain in this country. 

Downing Street said reforms would be designed to 'make sure the Human Rights Act meets the needs of the society it serves and commands public confidence'.

Whitehall sources told the Daily Mail that use of the controversial 'right to private and family life' is set to be severely curtailed. 

One senior source said the reforms would be at the 'spicy, vindaloo end of the menu'.

The right to family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights is regularly deployed by foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, to avoid deportation from Britain after committing crimes here.

It is also deployed by some asylum seekers trying to establish the right to stay in the UK.

Mr Raab is expected to announce plans to also withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, meaning future human rights cases would be settled in London.

Speaking at the Conservative Party conference last month he said the UK's Supreme Court 'should be supreme in relation to human rights law'.

However, he is expected to stop short of withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, despite some Tory MPs warning yesterday it was now essential. 

Lee Anderson, one of a group of MPs who held talks with Boris Johnson on the issue on Wednesday, said: 'If we want to be a truly sovereign nation we

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