Nigel Farage has said he would take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if Reform win the next election.

The party's leader also reaffirmed his pledge to repeal the Human Rights Act and disapply three other international treaties acting as "roadblocks" to deporting anyone entering the UK illegally.

In a speech about tackling illegal migration , he said a Reform government would detain and deport any migrants arriving illegally, including women and children, and they would "never, ever be allowed to stay".

Sky News looks at what the ECHR is, how the UK could leave, and what could happen to human rights protections if it does.

What is the ECHR?

On 4 November 1950, the 12 member states of the newly formed Council of Europe (different to the EU) signed the Conve

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