TORY leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch last night announced she is ready to tear up human rights laws to stop migrant boats.
In a major intervention, she vowed to do "whatever is necessary" to smash peoplesmuggling gangs and take back control of Britain's borders.
She reignited the leadership race by vowing to go as far as hot favourite Robert Jenrick if it stops the tidal wave of misery. Her pledge came as the Sunday Express uncovered a plot by gangsters to smuggle illegal migrants into 10 new locations outside Kent.
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Mrs Badenoch declared: "We will end illegal migration by proper enforcement and inserting whatever deterrent is necessary into the system. And, yes, if necessary, we will leave international frameworks like the European Convention on Human Rights."
The former trade secretary unveiled her stance as she arrived at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, where all four contenders will parade before members.
Leadership frontrunner Mr Jenrick has been hoovering up support from the Right of the party as the only candidate explicitly to propose pulling out of the ECHR.
But Mrs Badenoch yesterday vowed to "end illegal migration" and use "whatever deterrent is necessary" - and threw down the gauntlet to her rival.
In an apparent swipe at Mr Jenrick, she said any exit from the Convention would be "part of a full plan, not just a throwaway promise to win a leadership contest".
Mrs Badenoch has previously taken aim at rivals who talk about "leaving the ECHR on day one" and blasted rivals for peddling "easy answers".
But Mr Jenrick, a former immigration minister, has accused her of pursuing a "fantasy".
In today's Sunday Express he promises he would pull out of the ECHR to "protect the public and secure our borders".
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