Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said that Labour MPs do not want to cut immigration and that replacing Sir Keir Starmer will make no difference to the “instability” of the government.
Asked about Labour’s latest plan to get a grip of the small boats crisis, she said on GB News: “I think the Home Secretary has actually been very brave, because when I saw her standing there, I could see all of the Labour backbenchers looking sick at the announcements that she was making, because they don't want to cut immigration.
“We tried all sorts of things to cut immigration, and we kept running into legal obstacles, endless lawfare. We tried again and again and again. If you remember Katherine, those were the things that we were rowing about. How much tougher can we be? We had a Rwanda scheme that should have gone in 2022 and the judges blocked it again and again and again.
“That is why I have said we are going to leave the ECHR, because until we do so, we will never get round any of these problems. Shabana Mahmood is going to learn that lesson, but until then we're going to support her.
“Quite a lot of the things she has said are good, positive steps. I said baby steps, but it's a positive direction. Let's support her. There are some things she did announce that we don't agree with, but she's going to need our help if she's going to get this over the line, because Labour don't like what she's doing.”
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