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Kemi Badenoch defends Robert Jenrick's 'I saw no white faces'
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Kemi Badenoch recorded a series of interviews that were all broadcast at 5pm, to try to set the agenda for her (second) big speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester tomorrow. Awkwardly, she spent much of the time defending Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, who had said he didn't see any white faces when filming in Handsworth in Birmingham, and that it was "like a slum". She said that his comments had been taken "out of context" and that he was arguing for integration. Jenrick's was the big speech of the day, but I wrote that it was such a poor effort that perhaps his Baldrick-style cunning plan was to avoid being accused of trying to outshine the leader. |
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What else you need to know today |
- Twenty Conservative councillors announced their defection to Reform this morning, in Lincolnshire, Hertfordshire, Bournemouth, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Kent and Hampshire; speaking to the BBC, Kemi Badenoch dismissed it as a "stunt"
- Labour responded with a "Recycle Your Tories Here" social media message: "Reduce, Reuse, Reform UK"
- Another subject that came up several times in Badenoch's interviews was the idea of a pact with Reform: "If Conservatives start saying we're having a pact with Reform, we might as well be saying vote Reform. That is something I'm completely against. There will be no pact. I was elected to get us back into government," she told ITV
- Finally, Badenoch told Sky News that she didn't understand the question when asked if she admired Nigel Farage
- Read Michael Heseltine's exclusive article for The Independent, in which he warned that anti-immigrant prejudice is not the Tory way to power
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Not before the election, says Sean O'Grady, but a lot of senior Tories are considering their options... Read more |
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