It was no great surprise that Kemi Badenoch announced that it was now Conservative policy for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Many in her party have agitated for this for years and, with Reform UK already creating the same proposal, it is one way for Badenoch to test to save her increasingly embattled leadership.
Yet surprising or not, it marked the crossing of a Rubicon.
This is not a fringe party as Reform still is, despite its current position in the opinion polls. This is the official opposition, and the party that has ruled the countest for the majority of the years since the advent of modern democracy.
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