Badenoch launches review into possible ECHR exit

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is to set up a commission to examine whether the UK should withdraw from a series of international legal agreements and overturn some domestic legislation which she fears may be binding the hands of British governments.

Among the agreements being looked into is the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Badenoch is expected to appoint Tory peer and former justice minister Lord Wolfson of Tredegar to chair the commission, which is expected to report by autumn, when the party meets for its annual conference.

Last month, the government announced plans to bring forward legislation to “clarify” the extent to which ECHR would impact UK immigration cases.

The ECHR was established in 1950 and sets out the rights and freedoms people are entitled to in the 46…