Britain's Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, waits to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg at Media City, in Salford, England, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.

Senior Conservatives have hit out at Kemi Badenoch over her plan to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Tory leader told her party’s conference in Manchester that she would quit the ECHR if she becomes prime minister – although that looks pretty unlikely right now, as they’re polling at 16%.

Nevertheless, she claimed the international agreement makes it harder to cut immigration.

Senior figures within the party have been arguing for months that the ECHR is inhibiting Britain’s ability to deport foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers.

The polling success of Reform UK – known for its hardline migration policies and its own plans to leave the ECHR – is also likely to have contributed to Badenoch’s new policy.

Labour, meanwhile, has only........

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