The prime minister is thought to be considering fighting the 2020 election on a platform of pulling out of the European Court of Human Rights

Theresa May has been warned she will face opposition from within her own party should she try to pull Britain out of the European Court of Human Rights after the next general election.

The move would mean that while Britain would keep the court’s principles in its own Bill of Rights, there would be no right of appeal to the court.

Mrs May was considering going further than David Cameron by ensuring that Britain’s Supreme Court becomes the overall arbiter of human rights rulings in the UK, The Daily Telegraph reported. It said that the prime minister would make pulling out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) the centrepiece of her 2020 election campaign.

A government source told the paper: “We would have