Robert Jenrick has pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if he is elected as leader of the Conservative Party. He told activists the party will “die” unless it advocates leaving the ECHR. The former Home Office minister told supporters at the party’s annual conference the convention had made it “impossible to secure our borders”. Adding that the idea of reforming the treaty was a “fantasy”, he argued the issue was now one of “leave or remain”. MPs on the right of the Tory Party have increasingly blamed the convention for enabling failed asylum seekers to challenge the…