'A Grave Political Error': Tories Hit Out At Kemi Badenoch Over Plan To Leave ECHR

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e38c3d18000003a05d123a.jpeg?cache=PYNIBgcoL6&ops=crop_0_34_4000_2520%2Cscalefit_630_noupscale" alt="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." data-caption="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." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />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.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Senior <a href="news/conservative-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Conservatives</a> have hit out at <a href="news/kemi-badenoch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kemi Badenoch</a> over her plan to take the UK out of the <a href="news/echr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Convention on Human Rights.</a></p><p>The Tory leader told her party’s conference in Manchester that she would quit the ECHR if she becomes prime minister – although <a href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/VotingIntention_MRP_Results_250929_w.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">that looks pretty unlikely right now, as they’re polling at 16%.</a></p><p>Nevertheless, she claimed the international agreement makes it harder to cut immigration.</p><p>Senior figures within t