Do British people want to leave the ECHR? What a decade of polls reveals.
9 October 2025
Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties in the UK.
In the most recent YouGov poll on this issue, 54% of Conservative voters and 72% of Reform voters were in favour of leaving.
But evidence shows that “the people” don’t actually want to leave.
In the most recent YouGov poll on this issue, 54% of Conservative voters and 72% of Reform voters were in favour of leaving.
But evidence shows that “the people” don’t actually want to leave.