Great -Britain may have to leave the European Convention on Human Rights If it continues to act against the national interest, Kemi Badenoch has warned.
In her first major speech for foreign policy, the Tory leader said it was time to take a 'cold, hard look' to many similarities that the UK registered until decades ago.
She said that in a time of global revolution, with the end of the post -war peace protected by America, the British sovereignty should be given priority over international law and institutions.
“If we are confronted with regimes without respect for the law, we need more realism,” said Mrs. Badenoch on the Westminster HQ of policy exchange.
'' International law 'should not be a tool for NGOs [non-governmental organisations]And other critics, to promote an activist political agenda through international authorities or our courts. '
She emphasized how the ECHR had explained protection against climate change, while both the International Court of Justice and a UN maritime tribunal told Groot -Britain to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
“If international authorities are taken over by activists, or by autocratic regimes such as China or Russia, we have to use our influence to stop them, and if that fails, we must come loose,” she said.
'We have to look a cold, look hard at the similarities we have signed and ask ourselves whether they really serve our national interest today.
Kemi Badenoch (photo) gave her first major speech for foreign policy and said that the British sovereignty should have priority over international law and institutions
In her first major speech for foreign policy, the Tory leader said it was time to take a 'cold, hard look' to many similarities that the UK has registered until decades ago
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, also known as the Strasburgerhof (photo)
“We cannot win war against an opponent who wants to break all the rules while we are on playing through the softest rules of Queensbury.”
She acknowledged that Great -Britain had developed many international similarities after the Second World War, but said that some people had since “mutated out of all recognition.”
Asked if she meant that Great -Britain would withdraw from the ECHR, she replied: 'I have always been very clear that the ECHR should not prevent us from doing what is good for the people of this country and what is good in us national interest.
“And if it keeps doing that, we will probably have to leave at some point.” But she emphasized that the UK should not leave without a plan.
Mrs Badenoch insisted that the US was still an ally, despite the fact that Donald Trump the leader of Ukraine Volodymyr Zensky a 'Dictator'.
