In an article last year, external, Wallace – the former defence secretary – claimed human rights laws including the ECHR had become a serious risk to national security.
He told the Telegraph: “When we have a threat to the UK, this lunacy of being unable to render people across borders or arrest people in countries whose police forces are unacceptable means that we are more often than not forced into taking lethal action than actually raiding and detaining.”
The role of the ECHR has long been a topic of intense debate within the Conservative Party.
MPs on the right of the party have increasingly blamed the convention for enabling failed asylum seekers to challenge their removal from the UK.
Jenrick and former home secretary Suella Braverman are among those who have called for the UK to withdraw from the treaty to avoid this.
But other Tories oppose this.
It has been a dividing line between the leadership candidates at the party’s conference in Birmingham.
On Monday, fellow leadership contender Kemi Badenoch warned party members that leaving the ECHR would not address “the root of the problem”, saying it could result in Brexit-style “legal wrangling”.
She did not rule out leaving the treaty, but argued deporting more failed asylum seekers should be the priority.
