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Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

Badenoch ‘increasingly’ supportive of leaving ECHR as she launches exit probe

Kemi Badenoch will say she is “increasingly of the view” that the UK should withdraw from an international human rights treaty, as she announces plans for an investigation into leaving it.

The Conservative leader is expected to set out her plans for a commission about whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a treaty which underpins human rights law, in a speech on Friday.

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