Rishi Sunak will face opposition from at least 12 cabinet ministers if he opts to quit the European Convention on Human Rights, The Times can disclose.
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, James Cleverly, the home secretary, Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, and Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, are among the senior ministers who are understood to be opposed to leaving the convention. They outnumber those in the cabinet who support leaving the ECHR by two to one.
There are growing calls among Conservative MPs to quit the ECHR after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Tuesday that governments have a duty to protect people from climate change.
Last week Sunak threatened to leave the ECHR if Rwanda flights
