"Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce a plan this weekend to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR) if the Conservatives win the next election, as the party attempts to halt a haemorrhaging of support to Reform UK. The move will be seized on by political opponents as evidence the Tories have lurched to the right Russia and Belarus are the two other European countries that have opted out of the ECHR while it could lose the party support from the political centre."
"The Tory leader's stance has hardened since last autumn, when she said leaving the treaty would not be a silver bullet to tackling immigration. In February, she said the UK would probably have to leave if the treaty prevented the government acting in the national interest. Despite private concerns from one nation Conservatives that such a decision will force out moderate Tories, the party leader is understood to have signed off plans to leave the international agreement."
Kemi Badenoch plans to propose withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights if the Conservatives win power. The proposal aims to stop voter losses to Reform UK but risks alienating centrist supporters and will be portrayed as a rightward shift. Badenoch's position has hardened since last autumn, with February comments that withdrawal may be necessary if the treaty blocks national-interest actions. She established a June commission to examine leaving the ECHR and the refugee convention and to consider overturning domestic laws such as the Climate Change Act and the Equality Act. Centrist MPs are keeping concerns private.
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