Sunak May Harden Stance on Human Rights Pact After Farage Jumps Into Race
- Policy blitz has failed to move polls in Conservatives’ favor
- Shifting UK’s position on rights pact would anger centrists
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Rishi Sunak is considering hardening his Conservative Party’s position on the European Convention on Human Rights, as disastrous polling and Brexit architect Nigel Farage’s decision to stand for Reform UK in the general election leave the premier’s ruling party facing a potential wipe out.
Senior Tory party officials have sounded out ministers on the more moderate wing of the party over whether they could support a tougher stance on Britain’s membership of the human rights pact, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing policy that’s not finalized.