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". [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] 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
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