Tory manifesto will promise to scrap Labour's Human Rights Act, says Theresa May Key changes will be unveiled in a new immigration Bill, due to be published in the next few weeks, which will significantly toughen the law on removing foreign crooks. The measures were first issued by the Home Office last year, with Parliament's unanimous backing, but the immigration courts have continued to allow scores of human rights appeals. She condemned the current system as a "never-ending game of snakes and ladders" and told conference that current appeal rights for foreign criminals will be slashed from 17 routes to just four. Mrs May predicted it would help cut the 70,000 appeals brought each year by more than a half. Foreign criminals will also be deported and be forced to stage their appeals from overseas, providing they were not facing "serious and irreversible harm" in their home country, she said. "It's ridiculous that the British government should have to go to such lengths to get rid of dangerous foreigners," Mrs May said. It's why Chris Grayling [the Justice Secretary] is leading a review of our relationship with the European Court. A report from the immigration inspector in 2011 said there was a "significant disparity" between the way the government and the courts approach deportation of foreign criminals. Between March and December 2010 the courts overturned 425 deportation decisions - the "overwhelming majority" on human rights grounds. And in the 12 months to February 2011 foreign criminals won almost a third of the appeals lodged against Home Office deportation measures, added John Vine, the chief inspector.