Every Tory candidate must back leaving ECHR, says Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch said every Tory candidate at the next election would have to sign up to leaving the ECHR (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Every Conservative candidate must sign up to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) or face being barred from standing at the next election, Kemi Badenoch has said.

Mrs Badenoch kicked off the Conservatives’ annual conference in Manchester with a pledge to leave the ECHR as part of a plan to deport 150,000 people a year from the UK.