UK Politics Live: Kemi Badenoch Defends Israel Migrant Claim As Rosie Duffield Launches Starmer Attack
NewsUKUK PoliticsTory leadership contender defends comments that too many migrants ‘who hate Israel’ are coming to the UK
Immigrants who see Israel as enemy ‘not welcome’ in UK says Kemi Badenoch
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Kemi Badenoch has defended her claim that there has been a recent rise in the number of migrants coming to the UK who “hate Israel”.
The Tory leadership hopeful said in a newspaper op-ed on Sunday that migrants’ “feet may be in the UK, but their heads and hearts are still back in their country of origin.”
Asked on Sky News if she was referring to Muslim immigrants, Ms Badenoch disagreed, adding: “Because it is not all Muslim immigrants. And this is what I don’t do, I am very careful when I speak.”
She added: “But there are some, those who buy into Islamist ideology, political Islam, they do not like Israel and we need to be able to distinguish between the two. That is why I don’t just use a word that brings so many people into the group.”
Meanwhile, MP Rosie Duffield, who resigned the Labour whip on Saturday, has launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the prime minister of “having a problem with women”.
She told the BBC that many women backbenchers she’s friends with refer to the “young men that surround him [Starmer] as ‘the lads’ and it’s clear that the lads are now in charge”.
1727604617Watch: Duffield claims Starmer ‘has problem with women’ after quitting Labour
Rosie Duffield claims Keir Starmer ‘has problem with women’ after quitting LabourRosie Duffield has claimed that she believes Keir Starmer “has a problem with women” after sensationally quitting the Labour Party over his “greed”. Just months after the general election, the elected MP for Canterbury says the gifts scandal and “sleaze” are causing MPs to be “laughed at”. “I’ve experienced it myself”, she responded when quizzed on whether there was a gender issue in his government. “Most backbenchers I’m friends with are women and most of us refer to the men who surround him as ‘the lads’…it’s very clear that ‘the lads’ are in charge.”
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 11:10
1727604202Badenoch: Britain needs to be clear in its national identityKemi Badenoch has called for the need for clarity around Britain’s national identity.
Speaking on Times Radio about the challenges posed by migration, she said: “People are running away from terrifying regimes and coming here. We cannot allow the things they’re running from to spring up here.
“Immigrants come here to build their lives, not to build this country. We should ask them to contribute to this country.
“But at some point if you just become a mix of everything that’s just going on around the world, what is it that you’re uniting around, what is your national identity?”
(REUTERS)Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 11:03
1727603717Tugendhat rejects ‘tailender’ label Tom Tugendhat has rejected claims that he is the “tailender” in the Tory leadership race.
Asked on Times Radio if he was the “tailender”, he said: “No I don’t think that’s right. I think what we’re seeing is that this is a massive reset moment for the party and actually for the race.
“The reality is that we need to restore trust in this party, we need to restore trust in politics across the country, and we need to offer the leadership that the British people need.
“And you know, I’ve demonstrated over 25 years serving our country in different ways, on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Parliament and recently in cabinet, that you know, service is absolutely essential to what we need, and it defines who I am, and we need to be offering that same level of service and that same offer of leadership to make sure we’re delivering for the British people.”
In a quick-fire round of questioning, Mr Tugendhat answered “yes” to questions “can you win” and “would you appoint your final contenders to your shadow cabinet if you do win” and “do you think this contest should be cut short so you can respond to the budget”.
Asked, “if not you, who”, Mr Tugendhat did not answer and said “that will be a matter for the Conservative voters”. Pushed on the question, he said: “Look, I’m standing because I think I’m the best placed to offer the leadership this country needs.”
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 10:55
1727602807Minister denies Duffield’s claims ‘the lads are in charge’ of No10Pat McFadden has rejected Rosie Duffield’s claim that “the lads” were in charge in Downing Street.
Asked whether he was one of “the lads”, he told the BBC: “I think I’m a bit too old to be a lad.
“Some of the stuff in the letter [from Rosie Duffield] I just don’t accept.
“I see ministers turning up to work every day and what’s on their mind is how to stabilise the economy and get it growing again, how to turn around the NHS, how to get more houses built, how to improve rights at work for people, how to get more opportunity into schools.
“That’s what the ministers around that Cabinet table are focused on. They believe in public service.”
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 10:40
1727601917McFadden says Labour will tighten rules on hospitality received by ministersLabour will tighten rules to ensure ministers declare hospitality they receive in the same way as backbench MPs, Pat McFadden has said, claiming the current rules were a “Tory loophole” to protect Conservative ministers.
He told the BBC: “We will make clear going forward in the ministerial code that both ministers and shadow ministers should be under the same declaration rules.”
He added: “This was a Tory loophole, brought in so that you would have an event where the Tory minister, as it was under the last government, there, the Labour shadow opposite number would also be there, and the Tory minister would not have to declare.
“That was the Tory rules, we don’t think that’s fair, so we will close that loophole so ministers and shadow ministers are treated the same going forward.”
Details of hospitality received by ministers in their ministerial capacity are published by departments, but the information is released quarterly and does not include the value of the hospitality, unlike MPs’ interests which are declared fortnightly and include the cost of the hospitality.
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 10:25
1727601617McFadden responds to Duffield: ‘She’s been disillusioned for a long time’Labour cabinet minister Pat McFadden has addressed Rosie Duffield’s recent criticisms.
Acknowledging her long-sanding disillusionment with the party and its leader, he told the BBC: “It’s not something that’s developed in the last few months.”
On the controversy surrounding donations accepted by Labour members, McFadden defended them as standard contributions, adding that “presentation” is part of any campaign.
He also dismissed any notion of “give x to get y,” and highlighted Lord Alli as a “long-term” Labour supporter.
(BBC)Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 10:20
1727600792Watch: Badenoch praises Israel as ‘extraordinary’ following Hezbollah leader wipeout
Kemi Badenoch praises Israel as ‘extraordinary’ following Hezbollah leader wipeoutTory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has praised Israel and Netanyahu as “extraordinary” following an airstrike confirmed to have killed Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. “I would be congratulating prime minister Netanyahu”, Badenoch told Sky’s Trevor Phillips from the Tory Party Conference. When quizzed on whether moral lines had been crossed to reached Hezbollah’s leader, she added: “It’s not about a free pass, but Israel does have a right to defend itself.” The MP added that immigrants who see Israel as “an enemy” are not welcome in the UK.
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 10:06
1727600111Duffield: The lads are in charge Rosie Duffield has accused Sir Keir Starmer of having a problem with women.
She told the BBC that many women backbenchers she’s friends with refer to the “young men that surround him [Starmer] as ‘the lads’ and it’s clear that the lads are now in charge”.
Ms Duffield added: “They’re the same lads that were there briefing against me in the papers. I was really hoping for better, but it wasn’t to be.”
(BBC)Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 09:55
1727599949Rosie Duffield: Starmer can afford his own clothesFollowing her resignation letter attacking the prime minister, the Canterbury MP has hit out at Keir Starmer for accepting gifts from donors while axing the winter fuel payment for pensioners.
Ms Duffield told the BBC: “I’m ashamed of the fact that we stood up and condemned the last few years of Tory sleaze and all of the things that brought politics into disrepute and here we are and it’s daily revelations of hypocrisy and grubby presents. I can’t believe what I’m reading every single day.”
She added: “It’s greed. Why else would someone on so much more money than most people take free gifts? Why?
“He can absolutely afford his own clothes, we all can and I’ve seen journalists asking him and he hasn’t answered, he hasn’t explained.”
Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 09:52
1727599760‘I’m not an uncritical friend of Israel,’ Jenrick insistsThe final Tory leadership candidate to speack with Trevor Phillips has also addressed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
While is Jenrick considered one of the strongest supporters of Israel among the candidates, he insisted that he is “not an uncritical friend” of Israel.
He told Sky News that it is right to stand by the “only democracy in the Middle East”, but it must be done in “sensible steps” to reduce the loss of life.
(Sky News)Salma Ouaguira29 September 2024 09:49
