If you liked Brexit, you’re going to love what the Conservatives want next | Polly Toynbee

<p>Leaving the ECHR could mean higher food prices and an even bigger blow to trade. The Tories’ new proposals will end the party for good</p><p>Brexit is never over and it’s about to get a bit worse. As the moribund Tories assemble this Sunday, it’s still their only tune, as if they haven’t noticed how the public mood has changed. Brexit is the root cause of all their woes, with almost all the 61% of those people who call it a failure <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52410-nine-years-after-the-eu-referendum-where-does-public-opinion-stand-on-brexit">blaming the Conservatives the most</a>.</p><p>But instead of recanting, rethinking, questioning their recent history, they double down, with Kemi Badenoch now following Robert Jenrick deeper into the Farage darkness with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/02/reform-uk-zia-yusuf-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-immigration-asylum-labour-climate-change-uk-politics-live">a pledge</a> to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR). That double dose of Brexit will sink not save them.</p><p>Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/brexit-conservatives-european-convention-human-rights-echr">Continue reading...</a>