Europe & the constitution

The relationship with the EU, membership of international courts, and how power is distributed within the UK. Parties are ordered left to right by our placement on the spectrum, and each line is the position in brief.

1. 

   Green

   Zack Polanski

   10.6%

   Rejoin the European Union

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   Rejoining the European Union is party policy.

   Check itPolanski outlines Green economic policy, AOL / PA

   -8

2. 

   Labour

   Andy Burnham

   26.1%

   Closer co-operation, not rejoining; devolution at home

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   Having previously supported rejoining the EU, Burnham now says he will avoid a "permanent rut" of that argument, seeking closer co-operation on defence, illegal migration and economic security instead. Domestically his defining project is devolution: a "No 10 in the North" based in Manchester, and water, transport and housing brought under stronger public control short of full nationalisation.

   Check itAndy Burnham's main policy pledges, Yahoo News

   -3

3. 

   Lib Dems

   Sir Ed Davey

   10.3%

   Repair the relationship with Europe; a new Magna Carta

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   The most consistently pro-European of the six: repairing what Davey calls Britain's "broken relationship" with Europe, tearing down trade barriers and fixing the "botched" Brexit deal. Domestically he has called for "a new Magna Carta" to constrain executive power.

   -2

4. 

   Conservative

   Kemi Badenoch

   20.3%

   Leave the ECHRi; repeal the Human Rights Acti

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   Leaving the European Convention on Human Rightsi and the anti-trafficking convention ECATi, and repealing the Human Rights Acti. Badenoch has made this a condition of candidate selection: only those backing withdrawal from the ECHR and the scrapping of net zeroi are approved to stand.

   Check itOur Borders Plan, Conservatives

   +3

5. 

   Reform

   Nigel Farage

   22.9%

   Leave the ECHRi immediately

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   A Reform government would leave the European Convention on Human Rightsi immediately, which the party presents as the mechanism that would let it deport people without legal challenge. Farage has framed withdrawal as the natural sequel to Brexit.

   Legal scholars dispute the premise: the Convention does not dictate a state's immigration policy, and states set their own. The UK would also become the only European country outside it besides Russia and Belarus.

   Check itPolicies, Reform UK

   +6

6. 

   Restore

   Rupert Lowe

   4.4%

   No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said. We would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.

   +7

5 of 6 parties have a position we could source on this. A blank row may mean the party has said little, or that we have not found what it has said.