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A future Tory government would be open to dismantling more international treaties as a method to remove individuals from the UK, according to a key political official speaking at the start of a conference focused almost exclusively on migration strategy.

Plan to Leave Rights Convention

Delivering the initial of a pair of speeches to the assembly in Manchester, the Conservative leader officially outlined her proposal for the UK to quit the ECHR convention on rights as part of a wider removal of protections.

Such measures include an end to assistance for migrants and the right to take migration rulings to tribunals or legal challenge.

Leaving the ECHR “is a necessary move, but not enough on its own to accomplish our objectives,” she stated. “Should there are further agreements and regulations we must to amend or revisit, then we will do so.”

Potential Exit from Refugee Convention

The future Tory government would be open to the option of changing or quitting additional global agreements, the leader explained, raising the possibility of the UK leaving the UN’s 1951 asylum agreement.

This proposal to leave the European convention was revealed shortly before the event as one component of a sweeping and at times strict set of anti-migration policies.

• One commitment that every asylum seekers arriving by irregular routes would be sent to their own or a third nation within a seven days.
• Another plan involves the creation of a “deportation force”, described as being patterned on a semi-militarised border body.
• This force would have a remit to remove 150,000 people a annually.

Expanded Removal Measures

During a address directly following, the prospective home secretary said that if a non-citizen in the UK “shows racial hatred, such as prejudice, or supports extremism or terrorism,” they would be deported.

It was not immediately evident whether this would pertain solely to individuals convicted of a crime for these actions. This Tory party has already pledged to deport any UK-based non-citizens found guilty of almost all the most minor violations.

Judicial Hurdles and Funding Boost

The shadow home secretary set out aspects of the proposed removals unit, explaining it would have double the funding of the existing system.

The unit would be equipped to take advantage of the removal of many rights and paths of challenge for foreign nationals.

“Removing away the judicial barriers, which I have outlined, and doubling that funding means we can remove 150,000 people a annually that have no lawful right to be here. That is 75% of a 1,000,000 over the course of the next government.”

Northern Ireland Issues and Policy Review

This speaker noted there would be “specific difficulties in Northern Ireland”, where the ECHR is embedded in the Good Friday accord.

The leader said she would task the prospective Northern Ireland minister “to examine this matter”.

The address contained no policies that had not been already announced, with the leader restating her message that the party needed to take lessons from its last election defeat and use time to put together a unified platform.

She continued to take a swipe an earlier financial plan, saying: “The party will not repeat the financial irresponsibility of spending pledges without specifying where the money is coming from.”

Emphasis on Migration and Safety

A great deal of the speeches were focused on migration, with the prospective minister in particular employing large sections of his address to list a sequence of criminal offences committed by asylum seekers.

“It is disgusting. We must do whatever it takes to stop this madness,” the shadow minister said.

The speaker adopted a similarly firm stance in parts, asserting the UK had “tolerated the radical Islamist ideology” and that the nation “must not import and accept values opposed to our native”.