"The Tory leader is having a fairly fiery exchange with Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC over her plans to leave the ECHR and deport around 150,000 people a year. Ms Kuenssberg not unreasonably asks: Where would they go? Ms Badenoch replied, repeatedly: It doesn't matter where they go, the point is that they should not be here. This back and forth goes on but shows a much harder rightwing line in the Tory party from when they were in government."
"The Tory leader is having a fairly fiery exchange with Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC over her plans to leave the ECHR and deport around 150,000 people a year (BBC) Tara Cobham5 October 2025 09:54 The Independent's whitehall editor Kate Devlin reports: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised the government over the planned crackdown on repeat protests, asking: What took them so long? She insisted that her party believes in free speech, but added it has to be within the bounds of the law."
Kemi Badenoch called for leaving the European Court of Human Rights and proposed deporting around 150,000 people a year, asserting that their destination did not matter but that they should not remain in the UK. The stance reflects a harder rightwing turn within the Tory party and a desire for UK equivalents of US immigration enforcement. Badenoch criticised the government for delay on a planned crackdown on repeat protests, saying free speech must remain within the law. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood denied considering resignation over Gaza, accepted collective responsibility, and did not rule out an inquiry into antisemitism.
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