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Any future Conservative government could be open to dismantle more international treaties as a method to deport people from the UK, as stated by a key party official speaking at the beginning of a conference focused almost entirely on migration strategy.

Plan to Exit Human Rights Treaty

Making the first of a pair of addresses to the assembly in Manchester, the Conservative head formally set out her proposal for the UK to quit the ECHR convention on human rights as one element of a wider bonfire of safeguards.

These measures involve an end to assistance for foreign nationals and the right to take migration decisions to tribunals or judicial review.

Leaving the ECHR “represents a essential step, but not enough on its own to achieve our objectives,” the leader stated. “If there are other agreements and laws we need to amend or revisit, then we shall act accordingly.”

Potential Exit from UN Convention

A future Conservative government would be open to the option of amending or leaving other international agreements, the leader explained, raising the chance of the UK leaving the UN’s 1951 asylum convention.

This plan to leave the European convention was announced shortly before the conference as one component of a radical and sometimes strict set of immigration-control measures.

• A commitment that all refugees arriving by unofficial routes would be sent to their home or a third country within a week.
• A further initiative includes the creation of a “deportation unit”, billed as being patterned on a quasi-military immigration body.
• This force would have a remit to deport 150,000 individuals a year.

Extended Deportation Measures

In a address immediately following, the prospective home secretary said that if a foreign national in the UK “expresses bigotry, including antisemitism, or backs extremism or terrorism,” they would be deported.

This was not entirely clear whether this would apply solely to individuals convicted of a offence for such actions. The Conservative party has already pledged to remove any UK-based non-citizens found guilty of almost all the very lesser violations.

Legal Obstacles and Funding Increase

The prospective minister detailed particulars of the proposed removals unit, saying it would have double the budget of the current arrangement.

It would be able to take advantage of the removal of many entitlements and avenues of appeal for migrants.

“Stripping away the legal barriers, which I have described, and doubling that funding enables we can remove 150,000 individuals a year that have no lawful right to be here. This is 75% of a million over the duration of the next government.”

Northern Ireland Challenges and Policy Examination

The speaker noted there would be “specific challenges in Northern Ireland”, where the European convention is included in the Good Friday accord.

She said she would get the shadow Northern Ireland secretary “to review this matter”.

The speech contained zero policies that had not been already revealed, with the leader repeating her message that the party needed to take lessons from its last election defeat and use opportunity to develop a cohesive agenda.

The leader continued to take a swipe an earlier mini-budget, stating: “We will not redo the economic irresponsibility of expenditure commitments without specifying where the funds is coming from.”

Focus on Immigration and Security

A great deal of the addresses were concentrated on migration, with the prospective home secretary in especial employing significant sections of his speech to list a series of illegal offences committed by refugees.

“This is disgusting. We must do whatever it requires to stop this madness,” the shadow minister declared.

This speaker took a similarly firm tone in parts, asserting the UK had “allowed the extremist Islamist beliefs” and that the nation “must not import and tolerate principles hostile to our native”.