The Latest Breaking News from ECHR

The Council of Europe’s secretary general Alain Berset told the BBC he was open to engage on migration issues over the treaty.

The European Convention on Human Rights was first signed on November 4 1950 and came into force on September 3 1953.

MPs could be heard shouting over Nigel Farage as the motion was debated in the Commons chamber.

Former French prime minister François Fillon has lost his final legal appeal over a fake jobs scandal that destroyed his 2017 presidential run.

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who previously opposed leaving, has now said the Conservatives will take the UK out of the convention if they win an election.

Her claim came as Reform UK unveiled a steady stream of councillors defecting from the Conservatives on Tuesday

The Conservative leader said members were ‘thrilled’ with the policies put forward in Manchester.

Britain badly needs a grownup party of the centre right. It won’t come from Badenoch – it may come from a new generation of one-nationers, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Tory leader’s shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a future