SHADOW Housing Minister Paul Holmes has slammed a judge for ruling that a Palestinian family has the right to stay in the UK, claiming it is against the wishes of the British people.

Holmes said on GB News: “This is another example of the judiciary not representing the views and wishes of the British people.

“The government has a right to announce who it wants to come into this country. The last government announced the Ukrainian visa scheme. It was not for Palestinians.

“So what I’m seeing, and what I understand why many people are angry, is that the judiciary are not taking the wishes of the British people as they should do, and the government now needs to act to tighten up those rules.

“We need to have a look at human rights law, as my leader Kemi Badenoch said last night, and that’s something that we need to do, because you cannot have the judiciary and judges out taking a stance that is out of the policy that the government intended in the first place.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello, he said: “We brought in a number of measures in the last government to make sure that people who were entitled to come here in a right and fair way could come here, such as the Ukrainian visa scheme, such as Afghan refugees.

“The Ukrainian visa scheme was not set up for any other asylum seeker to come into the country. So the government needs to tighten the legislation.

“They need to make it very clear to the judiciary that it is the government and Parliament’s decision of who can come here and who can’t come here.

“The judges and the judiciary in this country need to step back…and make the right decision in these cases going forward.

“But the government now needs to legislate to tighten those schemes, tighten the rules, and say that is the government’s decision, as it was the last government and that building there, who decides who comes to this country and who doesn’t.”

On Badenoch’s polling numbers, he said: “We have to accept that we suffered a very, very resounding defeat at the last election. Kemi has been very clear that she wants to reset a relationship of trust with the British people.

“Of course, two months after a historic defeat, people will not be listening to us as much as we would want them to, and Kemi has been very clear about that herself…

“Kemi has set out very clearly that she will be outlining policies that are right for this country going forward and being a vocal critic and a constructive critic about setting a policy agenda going forward for the next election.

“I don’t look at polls. You say I should be alarmed at polls. I’m not alarmed at polls. What is really important is that we present a policy agenda ready to win the next general election with Kemi Badenoch as Prime Minister.”