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Any upcoming Conservative administration would be willing to dismantling additional global agreements as a method to deport individuals from the UK, according to a leading political figure speaking at the beginning of a conference centered almost entirely on immigration policy.

Proposal to Exit Rights Treaty

Delivering the first of a pair of addresses to the assembly in Manchester, the Conservative head formally set out her proposal for the UK to quit the European convention on human rights as one element of a wider bonfire of protections.

Such measures include a halt to legal aid for migrants and the right to take immigration decisions to courts or legal challenge.

Exiting the European convention “is a necessary step, but not enough on its own to achieve our goals,” the leader stated. “If there are further treaties and regulations we need to revise or revisit, then we shall act accordingly.”

Potential Exit from UN Agreement

The future Tory administration would be open to the possibility of amending or quitting other international treaties, the leader explained, opening the possibility of the UK leaving the UN’s 1951 asylum agreement.

The proposal to leave the European convention was revealed shortly before the event as part of a radical and sometimes strict set of anti-migration policies.

• One pledge that all asylum seekers arriving by irregular routes would be sent to their home or a third nation within a seven days.
• A further plan includes the creation of a “removals unit”, billed as being modelled on a semi-militarised border agency.
• The unit would have a mandate to deport 150,000 people a annually.

Expanded Deportation Policies

During a speech immediately after, the prospective home secretary declared that should a foreign national in the UK “expresses racial hatred, including prejudice, or supports radicalism or terrorism,” they would be deported.

It was not immediately clear whether this would apply only to individuals found guilty of a offence for these behaviours. The Tory group has already pledged to deport any UK-based foreign nationals found guilty of almost all the most lesser offences.

Judicial Hurdles and Funding Increase

The prospective minister detailed aspects of the proposed removals unit, explaining it would have double the funding of the existing system.

The unit would be equipped to capitalise of the removal of many entitlements and avenues of appeal for foreign nationals.

“Removing away the legal barriers, which I have described, and doubling that budget enables we can remove 150,000 individuals a year that have zero lawful right to be here. That is three-quarters of a 1,000,000 over the course of the next parliament.”

Northern Ireland Issues and Platform Review

This leader noted there would be “particular difficulties in Northern Ireland”, where the European convention is embedded in the Good Friday agreement.

The leader indicated she would get the prospective Northern Ireland minister “to review this matter”.

Her address included zero policies that had not already announced, with the leader restating her mantra that the group needed to learn from its last electoral loss and use opportunity to put together a unified platform.

The leader went on to criticise a previous mini-budget, saying: “We will never repeat the financial irresponsibility of expenditure pledges without saying where the money is coming from.”

Emphasis on Immigration and Security

Much of the addresses were focused on migration, with the prospective home secretary in particular employing significant sections of his speech to detail a series of criminal acts carried out by refugees.

“It is disgusting. We must do whatever it requires to stop this chaos,” the shadow minister declared.

The speaker took a equally hard right tone in parts, saying the UK had “allowed the radical Islamist ideology” and that the country “cannot import and accept principles opposed to our native”.