By Suella Braverman

We have lost control of our borders. Our justice system, in too many cases, is unfair. The British people have lost confidence in the police. Our national sovereignty has been eroded. And in towns and cities across the country, people are taking to the streets in anger.

Serious action is required. I was the first Conservative Cabinet Minister to say, openly and unequivocally, that the United Kingdom must leave the European Convention on Human Rights. It was not a statement made lightly.

It was shaped by years of experience: as Home Secretary grappling with the small boats crisis; as Attorney General advising the government on national security; and as a barrister, long before I entered politics, watching our human rights laws weaponised to frustrate the will of Parliament.

That is why I have set out a comprehensive plan on how to deliver it, co-authored with Guy Dampier from the Prosperity Institute and backed by Reform UK and Former First Minister of Northern Ireland, Baroness Arlene Foster.

Born in the aftermath of war, the Convention and the European Court of Human Rights carried moral weight and historical purpose. No one of good faith disputes the noble intent of its text: life, liberty, fair trial, family life.

But what began as a shield against tyranny........

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