Ben Chapman
Guest Reporter
Kemi Badenoch’s “damage limitation” announcement today in Westminster left Martin Daubney “gesticulating at the TV”, the GB News star has revealed.
The new Tory leader pledged to review the UK’s membership of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in a bid to clamp down on migration.
Along with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Badenoch took aim at the new Labour Government ahead of tomorrow’s data dump which is expected to show a reduction in net immigration.
Martin said he has “heard it all before” from the party who spent the last 14 years in government.
“That was the bold new plan from Kemi Badenoch”, he said.
“Absolutely a damage limitation announcement, you have to feel, immigration figures are due out tomorrow and as Kemi Badenoch kept saying, we are expecting to see a downturn in those figures.
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“She is keen to say it was the Tories who done it. She’s setting out a new approach, despite the Tories having 14 years in power to actually do any of this.
“My jaw was on the floor watching that. I was doing a lot of gesticulating at the television. A lot of that, I have heard it all before.
“As I kept saying, they were in power for 14 years and they had every opportunity to do all of this. It seems to me that this was yet more promises.”
GB News Political Correspondent Olivia Utley said Kemi Badenoch’s position as Business Secretary puts her in a difficult spot as she had a “seat at the table” in the previous Government.
“It’s quite difficult for her to make this speech saying the immigration system is a mess, six months after the Tories lost power”, she said.
“Kemi Badenoch doesn’t particularly like making media appearances. She is doing this to get ahead of the curve.
“We are expecting to hear these figures tomorrow and we are expecting them to be down. To be fair to her, the reason they are down is mostly because of the work the Conservatives did.
“There will be a lag effect which does beg the question yet again, why did Rishi Sunak call the election when he did?”
In her major policy speech in Westminster today, Badenoch warned that Britain's current immigration levels are "unsustainable" whilst acknowledging her party's past shortcomings.
The Tory leader vowed to speak about immigration "without fear" and admitted that whilst in government, the Conservative Party had failed to properly control numbers.
She pledged to implement a hard annual cap on legal immigration, though did not specify the exact figure.
In her speech, Badenoch warned that immigration is occurring "at a pace too fast to maintain public services" and at a rate making it "next to impossible to integrate those from radically different cultures."
She predicted that tomorrow's official immigration figures would show a decline, following measures introduced by the previous government.
"We ended free movement but the system that replaced it is not working," she stated, emphasising that Britain would suffer without a shared national identity.
The speech came just hours after a heated exchange during Prime Minister's Questions, where Badenoch called for Sir Keir Starmer's resignation.
During the fiery clash, she responded to Starmer's questions about Conservative policies by stating: "If he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out."
She also criticised Labour for "making everything worse" with its tax and spend plans.
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The new Tory leader pledged to review the UK’s membership of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in a bid to clamp down on migration.
Along with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Badenoch took aim at the new Labour Government ahead of tomorrow’s data dump which is expected to show a reduction in net immigration.
Martin said he has “heard it all before” from the party who spent the last 14 years in government.
“That was the bold new plan from Kemi Badenoch”, he said.
“Absolutely a damage limitation announcement, you have to feel, immigration figures are due out tomorrow and as Kemi Badenoch kept saying, we are expecting to see a downturn in those figures.
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“She is keen to say it was the Tories who done it. She’s setting out a new approach, despite the Tories having 14 years in power to actually do any of this.
“My jaw was on the floor watching that. I was doing a lot of gesticulating at the television. A lot of that, I have heard it all before.
“As I kept saying, they were in power for 14 years and they had every opportunity to do all of this. It seems to me that this was yet more promises.”
GB News Political Correspondent Olivia Utley said Kemi Badenoch’s position as Business Secretary puts her in a difficult spot as she had a “seat at the table” in the previous Government.
“It’s quite difficult for her to make this speech saying the immigration system is a mess, six months after the Tories lost power”, she said.
“Kemi Badenoch doesn’t particularly like making media appearances. She is doing this to get ahead of the curve.
“We are expecting to hear these figures tomorrow and we are expecting them to be down. To be fair to her, the reason they are down is mostly because of the work the Conservatives did.
“There will be a lag effect which does beg the question yet again, why did Rishi Sunak call the election when he did?”
In her major policy speech in Westminster today, Badenoch warned that Britain's current immigration levels are "unsustainable" whilst acknowledging her party's past shortcomings.
The Tory leader vowed to speak about immigration "without fear" and admitted that whilst in government, the Conservative Party had failed to properly control numbers.
She pledged to implement a hard annual cap on legal immigration, though did not specify the exact figure.
In her speech, Badenoch warned that immigration is occurring "at a pace too fast to maintain public services" and at a rate making it "next to impossible to integrate those from radically different cultures."
She predicted that tomorrow's official immigration figures would show a decline, following measures introduced by the previous government.
"We ended free movement but the system that replaced it is not working," she stated, emphasising that Britain would suffer without a shared national identity.
The speech came just hours after a heated exchange during Prime Minister's Questions, where Badenoch called for Sir Keir Starmer's resignation.
During the fiery clash, she responded to Starmer's questions about Conservative policies by stating: "If he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out."
She also criticised Labour for "making everything worse" with its tax and spend plans.
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