Badenoch: 'We will likely need to leave' the ECHR

Kemi Badenoch says she believes Britain will "likely need to leave" the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Delivering a speech on Friday, the Conservative leader said she was launching a review into Britain's membership of the treaty, which underpins human rights law.

"I have always said, that if we need to leave the convention, we should - and having now considered the question closely, I do believe that we will likely need to leave," she said.

But Badenoch insisted she was launching the review to prevent a similar situation to Brexit: "We saw that holding a referendum without a plan to get Brexit done, led to years of wrangling and endless arguments... We cannot go through that again," she told reporters.

The ECHR was a dividing issue in last year’s Conservative leadership e