Kemi Badenoch makes HUGE admission on ECHR as she blasts meddling Euro judges

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to learn from years of Brexit battles and prepare plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Mrs Badenoch, in a major speech on Friday, will admit “I am increasingly of the view that we will need to leave” the ECHR to regain control of Britain’s borders.

But she will insist Britain must have a credible plan and confirm a review into how human rights laws are dogging attempts to deport foreign criminals.

The probe, led by shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson, will also examine whether laws protect veterans from “vexatious” legal claims, put British citizens first, “actually reflect Parliament’s intentions” on prison sentences and question whether they stifle economic growth by allowing “endless” challenges against infrastructure projects.

Reform UK, who have surged past the Conservatives in the polls, have vowed to leave the ECHR and drastically cut legal migration.

The Tory leader will say: “One area where things really needs to change is on immigration. Since last year, my party has been taking a new approach on immigration.

“A strict numerical cap. Zero tolerance on foreign offenders. A Deportation Bill to remove those who should not be here.

“And the more we build our policy programme, the clearer it seems that to achieve our objectives we will need to leave the ECHR in its current form. I have thought long and hard about this, and I am increasingly of the view that we will need to leave, because I am yet to see a clear and coherent route to change within our current legal structures.

“Some say reform is the answer, but I say we have tried that before.

“But I won’t commit my Party to leaving the ECHR or other treaties without a clear plan to do so and without a full understanding of all the consequences for all parts of our United Kingdom.

“Because we saw that holding a referendum without a plan to get Brexit done, led to years of wrangling and endless arguments until it got sorted in 2019. We cannot go through that again.”

Mrs Badenoch will accuse the European Court of Human Rights – which oversees the ECHR – of showing an “even greater willingness to invent new rights and directly overrule popular mandates”.

The Conservative leader, who is trying to restore trust on immigration, will also demand that we “prevent courts pretending climate change is a human right”.

Discussing her five tests, The Deportation Test, the Veterans Test, The Fairness Test, The Justice Test, The Prosperity Test, Mrs Badenoch will say: “These are not extreme demands.

“They are basic tests of whether we are still a sovereign nation — able to make our own laws and govern ourselves.

“If the Commission makes clear that these tests cannot be passed under the current system, then the system must change.

“If international treaties, including the European Convention block us and there is no realistic prospect of changing them then, we leave them. No hesitation. No apology.

“At Party Conference we will report back whether or not we are leaving the ECHR. And we will start to set out our plans.

“Because British democracy means that the people – through Parliament – make the rules. Not lawyers. Not campaigners. And not courts in Strasbourg.”

Attempts to control Britain’s borders have been repeatedly frustrated by criminals and failed asylum seekers using human rights laws to avoid deportation.

Paedophiles have managed to avoid removal by claiming it would harm their relationship with their children and failed asylum seekers have successfully argued they would face persecution because they have so many friends on Facebook.

The Home Office, under the Conservatives, will be given new powers to revoke migrants’ leave to remain if they become a “burden”.

And all illegal migrants will be "automatically deported", under the new proposals.

Migrants claiming benefits or earning too little will be ordered to leave Britain.

Mrs Badenoch will add: “We must fix our broken asylum system, so that the British government, not people traffickers control it. That means a total end to asylum claims in this country by illegal immigrants and removing immediately all those who arrive illegally and try to claim asylum.

“We need a new, sustainable system to admit strictly controlled numbers of those in genuine and actual need - with Parliament having the final say on, not just the rules, but the exact numbers coming in.”