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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch disavows comments from her own shadow foreign secretary

Net migration to the UK reached a record 906,000 in 2023, then decreased to 728,000 in 2024, according to figures released in 2024.
Priti Patel expressed she was "not happy" about immigration levels under the previous Conservative government while defending its record.
Kemi Badenoch stated the Conservative Party must acknowledge its mistakes regarding immigration and accept responsibility for past failures.
Labour criticized the Conservatives as "out of touch" and suggested Patel was proud of her role in the immigration policy during her tenure.

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Guido Fawkes

Kemi Slaps Down Priti Over Immigration in Broadcast Clip

Kemi says of Priti: "Immigration was far too high she agrees too, and many mistakes were made which need fixing." The Shadow Cabinet briefing war over

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Spectator UK

The interview that exposes the Tories' migration failures

The Tory party has never delivered on its immigration promises and never put much effort into doing so either.

23 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Conservative Home

Badenoch knew Patel's record was disastrous. So why has she hugged her so close?

In light of, by Twitter’s common consensus, one of the worst political interviews of all time, it’s a good time to ask why Kemi Badenoch made Priti Patel Shadow Foreign Secretary in the first place. Having only won the votes of 14 MPs in the only round of last year’s leadership election that she survived, Patel was hardly the biggest rival that Badenoch needed to placate. Her decision to offer her a more senior job than other, more successful ca…

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The Telegraph

Badenoch rebukes Priti Patel for defending soaring immigration under Tories

Shadow foreign secretary declines to apologise for rise in numbers while she was home secretary

24 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Sky News UK

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