Badenoch expected to back ditching human rights convention after review
Draft report delivers verdict on human rights convention
- Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce the Conservative Party's support for withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
- This follows a review by former justice minister Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, whose draft conclusions recommend leaving the ECHR.
- Lord Wolfson's report argues the ECHR has gone “well beyond” its original intent, imposing unpredictable “constraints” on government and domestic courts, particularly regarding immigration.
- The announcement, anticipated at the Tory conference next week, aims to align the party with Nigel Farage's stance on the ECHR amid challenges with illegal migration.
- While Lord Wolfson claims human rights would not be harmed, Labour's attorney general Lord Hermer warned that leaving would place the UK alongside Russia and Belarus.