The leader of the UK Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch has championed a deportation bill, introducing harsher measures to address illegal immigration and bolster border security.
Badenoch also criticized UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his recently released UK immigration white paper.
According to the Conservative Party leader, the changes being proposed by the Labour Party under the leadership of Stamer are far off the desired change on immigration.
Badenoch argued that the UK deportation bill is a comprehensive legislative package designed to curb illegal immigration and expedite deportations.
She added that the UK deportation bill includes sweeping measures such as automatic deportation for illegal entrants, mandatory age verification for asylum seekers, and stricter visa regulations to prevent overstays.
Also, it was gathered that the UK deportation bill proposes suspending the application of the Human Rights Act in immigration cases, aiming to limit legal challenges that delay deportations.
In a series of posts on X, Badenoch framed the bill as an urgent response to Labour’s “failure” to control immigration.
She accused the Labour government of blocking Conservative efforts to strengthen border security, warning that without the UK deportation bill, “two million immigrants could gain citizenship by next year—nearly twice Birmingham’s population.”
“I think labourers are taking us for a fool. Quite frankly, they are taking us for fools. This is nowhere near the scale of the change we need to see,” she said in the strongly worded address.
She added: “Many of the things he was announcing are part of the things they are voting against right now. I’m talking about putting serious things into legislation, like a cap on the number of people coming into the country.
She stressed the need for “systemic change” and cited measures such as abolishing the Human Rights Act and extending the path to citizenship.
“Take indefinite leave to remain, we wanted it to be 15 years: it’s too quick the rate at which people get British citizenship. He’s watered that down to 10 years and again kicked it into the long grass,” she said.
Badenoch also pointed to pressure on public infrastructure as evidence of a system in crisis.
“The fact of the matter is that public services are being strained. There’s not enough housing; people can’t get GP appointments.”
Anti-immigration comments by Badenoch are hugely seen as an attempt to curry the favour of the conservatives in the UK following the crushing defeat her party suffered last year at the polls. However, the British political leader, is perceived to be a divisive figure back home in Nigeria, where she derived her origin, no thanks to her constant push for hasher immigration measures.
