The Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, has called for stricter immigration rules across both legal and illegal channels. She said it is time to bring fairness back to the system and protect the interests of working British families.
In a recent piece, Badenoch shared her strong position on the matter. “The issue of immigration is a simple one for the Conservative Party: we need to crack down on it in every form, both legal and illegal.”
She argued that the current system rewards those who bypass legal processes, while punishing those who play by the rules. “Britain today seems to work more favourably for those who jump the queue, who break the rules, who get into our country illegally but then denigrate our customs and our culture.”
Badenoch Says British Workers Pay the Price
Badenoch described how hard-working citizens are carrying the burden of a broken system. “Those of us who work hard and do the right thing, hoping one day to leave a better life for our children, are left footing the bill.”
She pointed to the high cost of supporting asylum seekers. She noted that billions of pounds are spent housing them in hotels. Badenoch believes this spending is unfair to those who pay into the system but receive little support.
She also warned about what she sees as a loophole in the current immigration laws. “Low-paid immigrants and refugees who stay here for five years qualify for ‘indefinite leave to remain’.” She explained this gives them access to British welfare, including Universal Credit and social housing, even if they have never paid taxes.
“They become automatically entitled to make such claims regardless of whether they’ve paid taxes or have simply lived off the state throughout those five years.”
“To my mind, that is fundamentally unfair to all the hard-working Brits who have dutifully paid into the system – and I’m determined to stop it.”
Labour Opposed Conservative Immigration Reform Bill
Badenoch accused the Labour Government of blocking strong reforms. “It’s likely to come as no surprise that the Labour Government has no such interest.”
She said Labour voted down the Deportation Bill, which included a strict cap on migrants and extended the benefit-claiming period for new arrivals from five to ten years.
The bill also proposed to:
- Extend the path to British citizenship from five to ten years
- Deny indefinite leave to remain to anyone who had claimed benefits
- Allow removal of settled status from immigrants who commit any crime
“All in all, that Bill was designed to protect our borders and uphold fairness in our benefits system.”
“But thanks to Labour, it was shot down.”
Legal Barriers, ECHR, and Policy Failures
Badenoch said many immigration policies have failed due to legal blockages and court rulings. She referred to the Conservative Government’s failed Rwanda deportation plan. That policy, she said, was stopped by courts under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
“That became bogged down in our courts and frustrated by unnamed foreign judges interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Other policies, she said, have ended the same way. She believes major changes will need legal backing and public support to succeed.
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