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Rishi Sunak has been warned he would face a mutiny if he made an election threat to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, after he proposed “toughening up” the party’s policy on the ECHR to Tory ministers.
One cabinet member said that any suggestion that Britain would leave the ECHR could undermine the integrity of the UK, since the convention underpins the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of strife in Northern Ireland.
A senior Conservative MP said moderate Tories were already gearing up for a fight if Sunak went down that path. “The WhatsApp group is alive with people saying they won’t take this lying down. We will just not support that.”
Senior Conservative officials confirmed a report, first published by Bloomberg, that Sunak’s team discussed with ministers whether they would accept a toughening up of the party’s policy…