Badenoch says Tories open to quitting more treaties to increase deportations

Kemi Badenoch said leaving the ECHR was a ‘necessary step, but not enough on its own to achieve our goals’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

A future Tory government would be open to dismantling more treaties as a means to deport people from the UK, Kemi Badenoch has said at the start of a Conservative party conference focused almost exclusively on immigration policy.

Making the first of two addresses to the gathering in Manchester, the Tory leader formally set out her proposal for the UK to quit the European convention on human rights (ECHR) as part of a wider bonfire of protections including an end to legal aid in immigration and asylum cases and the right to take migration decisions to tribunals or judicial review.