Badenoch launches attack on Reform UK at Conservative Party conference
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Kemi Badenoch launches an anti-racist, all out assault on Reform: for debating whether her mixed-race children are English, for calling veterans traitors and threatening journalists.
After Andy Burnham's emotional speech last week, the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch showed she can do passion too. Crushing any thoughts of doing deals with Reform she declared "They are not like us. We are not like them".
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It was the ethno-nationalism of Reform politicians denying that people of Asian and African origin can be English that most angered her. And on the day Reform threatened legal action over the allegations aired on this programme of illegal donations, which are being investigated by the police, the Tory leader said she didn't want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists.
She began her speech with a joke at Sir Keir Starmer's expense, but then proceeded to repeat much of the meat of his attack on Reform from this time last year. She got delegates up on their feet for that, and there was eye-catching retail politics too, on scrapping inheritance tax on family homes, which has been criticised by Reform and Labour for helping a wealthy minority.
Reporter: Gary Gibbon
Producers: Robert Hamilton
Editor: Donna-Marie Walton
Camera: Leon Troth
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If your father is English, then you are English even if the mother is an alien or the child was born outside of England. We are English by the grace of God.
"Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety-nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be an Englishman".
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)
Badenoch launches attack on Reform UK at Conservative Party conference
Channel 4 News
1,054 views
Kemi Badenoch launches an anti-racist, all out assault on Reform: for debating whether her mixed-race children are English, for calling veterans traitors and threatening journalists.
After Andy Burnham's emotional speech last week, the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch showed she can do passion too. Crushing any thoughts of doing deals with Reform she declared "They are not like us. We are not like them".
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It was the ethno-nationalism of Reform politicians denying that people of Asian and African origin can be English that most angered her. And on the day Reform threatened legal action over the allegations aired on this programme of illegal donations, which are being investigated by the police, the Tory leader said she didn't want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists.
She began her speech with a joke at Sir Keir Starmer's expense, but then proceeded to repeat much of the meat of his attack on Reform from this time last year. She got delegates up on their feet for that, and there was eye-catching retail politics too, on scrapping inheritance tax on family homes, which has been criticised by Reform and Labour for helping a wealthy minority.
Reporter: Gary Gibbon
Producers: Robert Hamilton
Editor: Donna-Marie Walton
Camera: Leon Troth
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