Boris Johnson faces growing pressure from his ruling party to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, amid frustration that a court ruling scuppered the government’s flagship immigration plan this week.
Veteran Tory MP Edward Leigh became the latest to suggest the U.K. withdraw from the convention, after a court in Strasbourg — which enforces the ECHR — halted the first planned deportation to Rwanda.
“It may be eventually necessary to get out of the Convention,” Leigh told Bloomberg’s Emily Ashton on BBC Radio 4’s “The Week in Westminster” program on Saturday, when asked about the aborted flight. “The government is absolutely determined, we will go back and we will get this policy through.”
