Keeping Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader could scupper the chance of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights for “a generation”, Suella Braverman will warn today.
In an incendiary speech, the former Minister of the Interior and long-time opponent of the ECHR will accuse the Prime Minister of not seriously wanting to leave the treaty.
She will brand suggestions from Number 10 that the Prime Minister is ready to leave as “inauthentic”.
And she will warn her right-wing party colleagues keen to leave that promising to do so in a losing election manifesto risks “setting the cause back” by a decade or more.
Indeed, Labor, which wants to remain within the ECHR, is expected to win with such a large majority that it could take at least two terms before the Conservatives can regain power.
Keeping Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader could wipe out the possibility of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights for “a generation”, Suella Braverman will warn today.
In an incendiary speech, the former Minister of the Interior and long-time opponent of the ECHR will accuse the Prime Minister of not seriously wanting to leave the treaty.
Ms Braverman’s explosive intervention will be seen as a blatant attempt to rally MPs to oust Mr Sunak and install him as Prime Minister before the general election, to keep the dream of leaving the ECHR alive.
This issue is likely to once again become a major challenge to Mr Sunak’s authority in the coming days, with the Rwandan bill likely to be passed by the end of this week.
But there are fears that the long-awaited deportation flights could be thwarted by European judges in Strasbourg, who administer the ECHR.
They had previously blocked flights on the grounds that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda could constitute a violation of their human rights.
A second attempt to derail this policy would pressure the prime minister to leave the deal.
Ms Braverman’s explosive intervention will be seen as a blatant attempt to rally MPs to oust Mr Sunak, to keep the dream of leaving the ECHR alive.
He has repeatedly pledged not to allow a “foreign court” to once again block his flagship asylum policy.
Last week he suggested he could leave the convention following an “illegitimate” ruling by the European Court of Human Rights which imposes an obligation on governments to reach net zero, after ruled that the human rights of a group of Swiss women had been violated by their government’s failure to act quickly enough to combat climate change. The decision also applies to the United Kingdom.
In her speech today to the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels, Ms Braverman will accuse the Prime Minister of paying lip service to leaving the treaty and warn MPs that a change of direction may be necessary to ensure Britain’s withdrawal.
She will say: “The current UK government does not have the political will to tackle the ECHR. It is not surprising that recent noises in this direction are easily dismissed as inauthentic. Any attempt to include a plan to withdraw from the ECHR in a losing Conservative election platform risks setting the cause back a generation.
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