Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said today, that SHE wants to launch a review into leaving the ECHR.Well, it’s a start Kemi, but it doesn’t go far enough. We don’t need a review into the ECHR – the millstone around Britain’s neck – we simply need to LEAVE.It is the obvious – and only – solution to reclaiming our status as an independent, self-governing nation… with our own future in our own hands.The long and short of it is this: we CANNOT control our borders and deport foreign national criminals while remaining in the ECHR. Here are some recent examples that perfectly illustrate why.Matt Goodwin demanded Britain joins the ECHR GB NEWSThe Albanian murderer who shot a man in the head with a Kalashnikov rifle and then won the right to remain in Britain under the ECHR, at least partly because a judge ruled that deporting him would be “unduly harsh” on his relatives.Or the Albanian burglar who was given two and a half years in UK prison to serve only six months before being deported – and who THEN smuggled his way back into the country, illegally, only to use the ECHR to win the right to stay here!Or the horrific case of the 19-year-old illegal migrant Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai who entered Britain, illegally, having already murdered two men in Serbia before being placed by hapless British authorities alongside 14-year-old children in British schools, assaulting other children and chatting-up girls in the playground…Before going on to murder aspiring marine Thomas Roberts.Kemi BadenochPAJust ask yourself this: would you live in a home where people are free to come and go as they please, where you are unable to remove people who enter your home illegally, who show contempt for your rules and ways of life, and where you cannot even remove the most dangerous invaders who harm your neighbours, if not you and your children.Seriously? Would you choose to live in a place like this?I ask these questions because this is exactly where you are living. In a country that— because of a complex patchwork of international conventions and laws built up by activist judges and lawyers over many years— cannot control who is coming in and out of its own national community, cannot remove dangerous foreign offenders from its own streets, and cannot keep you, the British people, safe. And I don’t know about you but I’m sick of it. Sick of the injustice that’s shown to the hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding British people who do play by the rules, and sick of the indifference among the elite class when much of this is discussed in polite society.Clearly, this disillusion is now spreading – no fewer than NINE European countries recently wrote an open letter questioning the scope and interpretation of the ECHR in the modern day. It is becoming entirely mainstream to say we should leave the Convention, which we need to do to regain control of our borders, our laws, our territorial integrity, and to be able to deport foreign criminals.And before the usual suspects say that ‘only Russia and Belarus have left’, well let’s pause and consider all the commonwealth countries which are not part of the ECHR but enjoy freedom and prosperity. Are we saying that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are struggling to safeguard their citizens? I don’t think so.Another problem with the ECHR is that in recent years it’s making judgements about issues like climate change and immigration that are deeply political, not judicial. It is taking these decisions and debates outside the realm of democracy where they are not accountable to the people, to citizensEven the leader of the Council of Europe – the very institution RESPONSIBLE for the convention in the first place – has admitted this week that its binding legal text should be reformed, with ‘no taboo’ on rewriting the rules.If even he can see it, what is left to debate?The United Kingdom, or England to be more precise, has a long and proud tradition of defending fundamental rights. Stretching all the way back to Magna Carta. We simply do not need a supranational body to protect us.It’s not the convention we signed back in the 1950s/75 years ago. People who blabber on about Winston Churchill supporting it or suggest leaving the ECHR is impossible because of the Good Friday Agreement are talking nonsense. The Good Friday agreement requires us to ensure laws made in Stormont can be challenged under UK law if they are not compatible with the ECHR. The Good Friday agreement is being used an excuse by an elite class who care more about losing face abroad than protecting their citizens at home.We need to leave the ECHR to put the security and safety of the British people first. And we need to do it now. Not just reform the ECHR — Leave it.