Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has told activists the party will "die" unless it advocates leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The former Home Office minister told supporters at the party's annual conference the convention had made it "impossible to secure our borders”.

Winston Churchill would be “turning in his grave” if he knew how his European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had been twisted to protect terrorists, murderers, rapists and paedophiles, Robert Jenrick said.

The Tory leadership frontrunner tore into the ECHR as he argued it is allowing foreign criminals to walk the streets at taxpayers' expense.

Robert Jenrick has said the Conservative Party will “die” unless Britain leaves the European Court of Human Rights. The leadership favourite issued the grim warning at the Tory conference in Birmingham.

The Conservative Party will “die” unless it proposes pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Robert Jenrick will claim on Monday. In a speech at a rally at the Tory conference in Birmingham,

The former immigration minister, currently the bookmakers’ favourite to become leader, will take part in a Q&A at the Tory party conference today

Tory hardliners have long been calling for the UK to leave the ECHR, claiming it is a barrier to Britain having adequate control over its borders.