Loophole for "Life of Luxury"

A woman of Pakistani origin, who lives in Manchester, has written a book called Belonging. She told BBC Radio 4's Midweek today that when she was 13 she was taken to Pakistan to marry a man who wanted to come to the UK and "live a life of luxury".
He (and others like him) would not even think of being able to do this if the law were changed - as promised by the Conservatives in 1979 - to end the concession that allows foreign men to live in the UK through marriage.
The Conservatives' policy provoked the intervention of the Council of Europe. I anticipated that, and complained to the European Commission of Human Rights on 10 June 1977 about foreign men being allowed to occupy the UK in this way "... even though British men often cannot reside in foreign and Commonwealth countries as of right if they marry local women."
The issue - as I made clear to the ECHR - is not to enable British men to live abroad through marriage, but to prevent the unhappiness caused to many native British men by foreign and Commonwealth men exploiting this loophole.
This is exactly the sort of complaint the ECHR was established to redress.
The ECHR would not investigate my complaint. Instead, it determined (May 1982) in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK.