8 h. ago Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office

Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefitsThe Conservative MP Katie Lam was “broadly in line” with party policy when she called for very large numbers of legally settled people to be deported from the UK, Kemi Badenoch’s spokesperson has said.Setting out Tory plans to retrospectively strip the right of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from people who claim benefits, the spokesperson said this would not be the case for people getting the state pension, but was unable to say whether someone could be deported if they received statutory maternity pay or shared parental leave. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Rising star Tory MP under fire over ‘deport legal migrants’ comment

Katie Lam drew cross-party criticism after suggesting large numbers of people with legal status in Britain should ‘go home’

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54 h. ago Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has been urged to condemn the comments by Katie Lam, a former Home Office shadow minister and now a whip for the party. Lam was previously a special adviser to Boris Johnson and is often described as a rising star of the new intake. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigrationThe Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands.The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch vows to cut energy bills by scrapping Net Zero if she becomes Prime Minister

In a major policy move, Kemi Badenoch said a Conservative government would replace Labour's Climate Change Act with a strategy putting cheap and reliable power first.

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3 w. ago Shabana Mahmood calls Nigel Farage ‘worse than racist’ over ‘dog

Home secretary also tells Labour conference fringe event of the abuse her family have been subjected to recently Warning: this article contains language that some may find offensiveThe home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has accused Nigel Farage of “worse than racist” dog-whistle politics as she described how members of her family had been racially abused near their home in recent weeks.After a speech calling on Labour and the UK to “fight for our belief in a greater Britain, not a littler England”, she said the Reform leader has “blown a very, very loud dog whistle to every racist in the country” with policies that would reassess the immigration status of people who have been granted a right to settle in the UK. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves says Labour’s Youth Guarantee will ‘abolish long

Chancellor will make pledge at Labour party conference in echo of Gordon Brown’s flagship schemeReeves ended her LBC interview by saying that anyone saying the government should just borrow more “makes no economic sense”. That was in response to a question about Andy Burnham and his comments about the bond markets in an interview last week.Ferrari asked her if she was saying that Burnham was “Trussesque”.Anybody that says you can just borrow more – I do think that risks going the way of Liz Truss.I think there are lots of people who back Reform would be horrified by the thought that people who came to this country legally, are working and contributing, will be deported from this country. And we had to call out Reform for their policies. And this is a racist policy, and it’s a bad for our country, and we need to call that out. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could ‘tear this country apart’Labour conference – live updatesKeir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right.The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change. Continue reading...

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