Conservative plans to leave ECHR: Badenoch has chosen to back Farage and Putin

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to reports that Kemi Badenoch has announced the Conservative Party will leave the European ­ on Human Rights should it win the next election, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said:

“Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

“This will do nothing to stop the boats or fix our broken immigration system – problems caused by the last Conservative Government that Badenoch still hasn't apologised for.

“I say to former One Nation Conservatives who have been abandoned by their party’s lurch to the extremes: you have a home with us. The Liberal Democrats will always fight to defend our fundamental British freedoms and the rule of law.”

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First reported by the Daily Mail