UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch announced that the conservatives will issue Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if they win the next election.
The announcement comes after a examination that the Conservative Party’s chief lawyer’s chief lawyer remains in migration reform and led to the persecution of military veterans.
Last year, Badenoch said it would not be a “silver bullet” to fight the migration from the separation of the agreement, but on Friday, the movement was necessary to protect our borders, veterans and citizens “.
The worker said that the conservative leader adopted a “policy he faces” because “the reform is too weak to stand against his own party.”
On the eve of the party’s conference in Manchester, the announcement will solve the party’s position After months of internal divisions.
The ECHR had become the focal point of the conservative party’s immigration debates, and high -level figures argued that their provisions prevented their efforts to deport foreign criminals and prevented failed asylum seekers.
The brands will announce their plans to quit a sharp change in conservative politics and will probably become a central theme of the party’s election campaign.
The reform, which promises to leave the ECHR, comes in the middle of the increasing pressure from England.
Badenoch said: “I did not come to this decision slightly, but it is clear that we need to protect our limits, veterans and citizens.
“If necessary, I was always clear that we had to leave the ECHR, but unlike other parties, we have done a serious work to develop a plan to do so – it was supported by the legal advice of an elite king’s lawyer.”
The announcement concluded that the detailed legal investigation led by the Shadow Chief Prosecutor General Lord Wolfson of Tredegar has placed “important restrictions” on the government.
Examination, Founded by Badenoch in June, He tested how international law affects five basic conservative policy proposals: to deport foreign criminals and illegal immigrants, to protect military veterans from legal proceedings, to prioritize access to public services of British citizens, to ensure that imprisonment reforms the intention of parliament and to prevent planning reforms.
Lord Wolfson said, “In all five policy areas, the ECHR brings significant restrictions,” Lord Wolfson said.
This week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that the government would look again how international laws, including the ECHR, to be interpreted by the British courts – to prevent failed asylum seekers from being deported to worse prisons or health systems.
Sir Keir told BBC that he did not want to “destroy” the laws of human rights, but in recent years, mass migration means that there should be a change.
Legal experts warned that leaving the ECHR will have serious political and legal consequences.
Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law at Cambridge University, said that withdrawal will isolate Britain together with Russia and violate both the good Friday agreement and the UK-EU trade agreement.
However, Lord Wolfson’s about 200 -page legal advice found that alternative internal attempts would be ineffective to soften the effect of the ECHR rules.
He also said that withdrawal would not violate the Belfast (good Friday) agreement or Windsor framework.
A Labor Spokesman told Badenoch that the decision was “forced” and “thought”.
“Badenoch now thinks that he cannot make changes in the ECHR with our international partners, and that he is a successful diplomatic operator enough to re -negotiate the good Friday agreement.”
Conservative Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp said that the ECHR has “enabled foreign criminals and illegal immigrants to remain in the United Kingdom:” Protecting our borders cannot be negotiated. “
During the previous discussions on migration, moderate conservatives expressed the concern of leaving the ECHR.
In 2023, the former referee Prime Minister Damian Green said that there was a “red line” for the One Nation Tories Group, chaired by leaving the ECHR.
More recently, Boris Johnson’s Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland said that leaving the ECHR would be a madness act – instead of internal reform.
A reform British spokesman said, “does not trust a single word.”
“There were 14 years of government to leave Ach for 14 months for the conservatives to decide what their policies have been.” He said.
“The conservative party is over.”
