Rishi urged to act like hero Winston and reform court

RISHI SUNAK has been urged by leading Conservatives to take inspiration from Winston Churchill and forge an alliance of European nations who will "reform" the European Court of Human Rights.

-  David Williamson

The Strasbourg Court triggered fury in Tory circles last year when its intervention stopped the inaugural flight in the Government scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The Supreme Court will shortly rule on the legality of the Rwanda plan.

But there are fears the flights - seen by Tories as a vital tool in deterring people from crossing the Channel in small boats will once again be grounded by the ECHR.

Danny Kruger, a leading member of the New Conservatives group of MPs, said: "After the Second World War, Winston Churchill worked with the countries of Europe to build a new framework of human rights.

"Activist European judges mean the ECHR is no longer fit for purpose.