Tory conference LIVE: Kemi Badenoch faces grilling on BBC's Laura Kuenssberg

Kemi Badenoch faces a grilling by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg as Tory conference kicks off today. The Conservative leader will appear on the Sunday morning show on the first day of her party's annual gathering in Manchester.

It comes after Mrs Badenoch announced plans for the Conservatives to take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights if her party wins the next general election. The party said so-called "lawfare", including lawyers using the ECHR to stop deportation attempts, has "frustrated the country's efforts to secure its borders and deport those with no right to be here".

The move comes as the Conservatives are trailing behind Nigel Farage's Reform UK in the polls. The insurgent party has also pledged to take the UK out of the European human rights treaty.

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