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Harry Taylor

Conservatives to take UK out of ECHR if it wins election, Badenoch announces

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has confirmed that she will take Britain out of the ECHR (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Conservative Party will leave the European Convention on Human Rights (EHRC) if it wins the next election, the party has announced, ahead of its conference in Manchester.

The Tories said so-called “lawfare”, including lawyers using the ECHR to stop deportation attempts, has “frustrated the country’s efforts to secure its borders and deport those with no right to be here”.

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