Conservatives would take UK out of ECHR, Badenoch confirms

Kemi Badenoch said she had ‘not come to this decision lightly’. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Kemi Badenoch has announced that a Conservative government under her leadership would pull the UK out of the European convention on human rights.

The move marks a lurch to the right for the Tories, who are attempting to stem a loss of support to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Farage has long been a critic of the ECHR and has pledged to leave it if he becomes prime minister.