Liam Hoare u @lahoare.bsky.social - 8h FS I truly believe Kemi Badenoch is presiding over the twilight of the Conservative Party. “= Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social - 9h I'm in Manchester for the Conservative conference, where some of the views on show are likely to be fairly extreme. As one example, these quotes from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Telegraph are the sorts of things which not very long ago would have only *ever* been said by the racist far right. Inan interview with The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch pledged to stop “silly arguments” about human rights from preventing the government from doing the “right thing”. She said she was “ashamed” Britain's immigration system had allowed the emergence of grooming gangs, with “foreigners raping our little girls”

«se Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social - 8h “Badenoch castigates Reform for not having proper plans. But when she is challenged repeatedly on *how* her mass deportation proposal would work, she has no details, saying: "It is not going to be easy. There is no simple, happy, warm words plan that's going to secure our borders.” Qs a3 [vk] a & «rue Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social - 8h “F This was, overall, a pretty terrible interview. It had the definite sense of someone who knows her time is running out. Rushed, panicky, unfocused. Qs 26 [VE] a &

wr Peter Walker “> @peterwalker99.bsky.social Badenoch repeats her Telegraph line about "all of those girls who had foreigners raping them in the grooming gangs". Irrespective of ethnicity, a lot of perpetrators were British nationals. Badenoch appears to argue that if you are a UK national of, say, Pakistani heritage, you are a foreigner. 5 October 2025 at 09:47 12reposts 4 quotes 43 likes

David @zero-4.bsky.social - 8h Tory leader Kemi Badenoch: “We're not just rushing out things & saying them to win elections” The same Kemi Badenoch who, only seconds earlier, claimed shell send 150,000 people “back home” - with no explanation as to how #BBCLaurak

Adam Bienkov + Follow @adambienkov.bsky.social Kemi Badenoch says she will send people "back to where they came from" 5 October 2025 at 0:50 @ Everybody can reply 38 reposts 76 quotes 185 likes 2 saves

hago 14.02 8ST Polanski is now referring to the Manchester synagogue attack. 44 I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a British political party in the last 100 years. And that also means that I do want to spend a moment to mark yesterday’s awful attack. As a Jewish man raised in north Manchester - I feel this deeply and my heart is with the community. More widely I am the product of migration. It’s why defending migrants matters so much to me. It’s a common Jewish experience - a tale as old as time. Now my Jewish ancestry is confusing and muddled because we’ve always been on the run but from what I can gather together, they started in a Jewish town in Lativa - fled from Pogroms - to Ukraine - more pogroms - Poland - Nazis - to England where they faced their challenges from antisemitism. They changed their name to sound more English - and I changed it back, knowing that real pride comes from no longer hiding who you are. He is now talking about the co-deputy leaders of the party (elected on the same day he was elected). 44 Mothin [Ali], son of a steelworker, whose parents came from what is now Bangladesh in the 60s. Rachel [Millward] who, apart from a Danish great grandad and a Welsh Grandma, has family roots tied to England as far back as she knows. One brought up Jewish. One raised Muslim. One a child of the Church. A leadership with three different backstories, in a country enriched by people from all over the world.

4hago 14.05 BST 'We'll say it loud, say it clear, migrants and refugees welcome here, says Polanski Polanski turns to Labour. 44 The prime minister might call this an Island of strangers. When Farage says jump, Labour might say ‘how high’. But the Greens won’t dance to the tune of a Trump-loving, tax-avoiding, science-denying, NHS-dismantling corporate stooge. He is referring to Nigel Farage, of course. This gets the longest and loudest applause of the speech so far. Polanski tells members to stay on their feet, because they will want to applaud his next line. 44 We will say it loud, and we will say it clear, migrants and refugees are “welcome here”.

Other officers dismissed Muslims and immigrants as “scum”, with one talking about using extreme violence against them. He said: “I think any foreign person is the worst to deal with.” Later he says of an alleged overstayer: “Either put a bullet through his head or deport him?