Overview

• Kemi Badenoch said Conservative candidates who do not support leaving the European Convention on Human Rights will be barred from standing at the next election.
• The Conservatives’ Borders Plan creates a US‑style Removals Force with £1.6 billion in funding, a target of 150,000 deportations a year and powers including facial recognition and mandatory police immigration checks.
• Asylum rules would be tightened to limit refugee status to people directly threatened by a foreign government, the immigration tribunal would be abolished and appeal rights and legal aid in immigration cases would be sharply curtailed.
• Party materials and briefings say the next Conservative government would also seek to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the anti‑trafficking convention ECAT, with deportations of new illegal arrivals and foreign offenders intended within a week.
• Rights groups and legal bodies condemned the plans, Lord Wolfson’s review argued key treaties pose no barrier, and Badenoch declined to specify destination countries for removals, calling the question irrelevant.