Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has told activists the party will "die" unless it advocates leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The former Home Office minister told supporters at the party's annual conference the convention had made it "impossible to secure our borders”.

“He gives people the shivers. I think it would be a huge mistake for the party to elect him as leader, because the public just won’t go for him,” one Tory source said. “He pretended to be a Cameroon and now he is pretending to be the voice of the Right.”

James Cleverly delivers considered, but occasionally funny speech in which party faithful are urged to be more ‘optimistic’

The Conservative Party will “die” unless it proposes pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Robert Jenrick will claim on Monday. In a speech at a rally at the Tory conference in Birmingham, Mr Jenrick, the front-runner in the party’s leadership race, will further harden his rhetoric on immigration.

The big picture at Conservative party conference is that unless something changes, the next party leader will be Robert Jenrick. Tory MPs will vote next week to