UK 'doesn't need to quit ECHR to cut immigration' - Tory law chief

A Tory frontbencher tasked with working out how Britain might quit the European Convention on Human Rights in order to control immigration has said he does not believe leaving is necessary.

Shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson KC is leading a Conservative review of the UK's membership of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), leader Kemi Badenoch revealed this month.

She said the post-war framework was being used as 'a political weapon' to block the legitimate deportation of illegal immigrants from Britain, warning the UK might have to withdraw.

But in a speech earlier this year, footage of which has been seen by MailOnline, Lord Wolfson said he was 'confident' the UK could have a 'sensible' immigration policy while staying within the ECHR framework.

Speaking to students at his alma mater Cambridge college he said 'why choose when you can have both?'