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May bangs drum for EU but wants Britain to ditch human rights convention

THERESA MAY sparked an angry backlash from campaigners yesterday after calling on Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Home Secretary argued that Britain should leave the treaty regardless of the result of the referendum in June.

In her first speech of the campaign, Mrs May insisted it was in the national interest to remain in the EU.

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