Nigel Farage's pledge to withdraw Britain from the ECHR sparked a fiery row on GB News, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is accused of being "too scared" to do the same.
Debating Labour's stance on the ECHR, broadcaster Carole Malone clashed with commentator Jonathan Lis after he claimed it is in "Britain's interest" to be part of a human rights body.
Sir Keir is facing increased pressure to leave the convention from senior Labour figures, including former Home Secretary Jack Straw.
Mr Straw, who oversaw the incorporation of the ECHR into British law under the 1998 Human Rights Act, has warned it is now being "misused" by British courts.
Carole Malone and Jonathan Lis clash over the ECHR and whether Britain should leave the convention
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He said: "There is no doubt at all that the convention, and crucially its interpretation, is now being used in ways which were never, ever intended when the instrument was drafted in the late forties and early fifties."
Criticising Sir Keir, Ms Malone told GB News: "Starmer is never going to do it because he's a human rights lawyer and he's too scared.
"And Graham Stringer, one of the Labour MPs who has spoken out, has actually said that Lord Hermer's got to be got rid of because he is the one standing in the way, he follows to the letter international law."
Mr Lis hit back: "Has it ever occurred to people on this panel that it's not the fact that Starmer is a human rights lawyer who doesn't want to withdraw from the ECHR, but he, along with most legal political experts in this country, think that it's actually in Britain's interest to be parts of a human rights body that can occasionally act in the interests of British citizens who've taken their cases to Strasbourg.
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Citing the argument of Mr Straw, Ms Malone stated people want Britain to leave the ECHR now because there is "no way" to carry out deportations of illegal migrants.
She told the GB News panel: "People want out of the ECHR now because there is no way for us to deport illegal migrants.
"It is really as simple as that. And Jack Straw has said that the act, the law has been misinterpreted. And he's a lawyer and he's a barrister.
"It's being misinterpreted by the judges and by the lawyers in this country who just want to make money, and he's right."
Taking aim at Ms Malone's remarks, Mr Lis then asked: "I really don't think that you can just impugn lawyer's motives as wanting to make money.
The GB News panel debated whether the UK should leave the ECHR to allow migrant deportations
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"A lot of them actually care about human rights, they care about the law, and they are winning the cases because they have interpreted the law better than the other side."
As Ms Malone interjected that the human rights lawyers "hate Britain", Mr Lis added: "It's an outrageous thing to say that they hate Britain.
"The people who hate Britain are the ones who criticise it all the time, the ones on your side."
Ms Malone snapped back: "They are not the people footing the bill for illegal immigrants, the taxpayers of this country are and they're sick to the back teeth of it, they're really sick of it. That's why they're protesting in the streets."
A No10 spokesman said: “Let’s be clear: the ECHR underpins key international agreements on trade, security, migration and the Good Friday agreement.
"Anyone who is proposing to renegotiate the Good Friday agreement is not serious."