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Politics
Cillian Sherlock

Badenoch’s position on human rights convention ‘very worrying’, Sinn Fein says

Sinn Fein party president Mary Lou McDonald (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Wire)

The leader of Sinn Fein and the Northern Ireland Secretary are among those who have criticised Tory calls to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said every party candidate must sign up to leaving the ECHR or face being barred from standing at the next election.

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