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Kemi Badenoch: ‘I’m more than black, female and Conservative – I am British!" (video)
https://www.channel4.com/news/kemi-baden...am-british
Streets of Britain have turned into 'theatres of intimidation', Kemi Badenoch says
https://news.sky.com/story/streets-of-br...s-13445290
INTRO: The Tory leader delivered a speech on the opening day of the party conference, in which she also acknowledged having a "mountain to climb" in the polls - but said she was "up for the fight". The streets of Britain have turned into "theatres of intimidation", Kemi Badenoch has warned in a speech to mark the opening of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.
Speaking just days after a terror attack at a synagogue in the city left two people dead, the Tory leader claimed extremism "has gone unchecked" in the UK. She said this had manifested in Pro-Palestine protests, which are "in fact carnivals of hatred directed at the Jewish homeland".
She cited the use of "asinine slogans" such as 'Globalise the Intifada', saying this "means nothing at all, if it doesn't mean targeting Jewish people for violence".
Ms Badenoch added: "So the message from this conference, from this party, from every decent and right-thinking person in this country must be that we will not stand for it any more. We cannot import and tolerate values hostile to our own.
"We must now draw a line and say that in Britain you can think what you like, and within the bounds of the law you can say what you like, but you have no right to turn our streets into the theatres of intimidation, and we will not let you do so any more."
Ms Badenoch has said she supports the government's efforts to impose restrictions on repeat protests in light of the Manchester terror attack. Nearly 500 people were arrested over protests supporting the proscribed group Palestine Action in central London on Saturday.
Demonstrators defied calls from political leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, to reconsider the event out of respect for the grief of the British Jewish community... (MORE - details)
https://www.channel4.com/news/kemi-baden...am-british
Streets of Britain have turned into 'theatres of intimidation', Kemi Badenoch says
https://news.sky.com/story/streets-of-br...s-13445290
INTRO: The Tory leader delivered a speech on the opening day of the party conference, in which she also acknowledged having a "mountain to climb" in the polls - but said she was "up for the fight". The streets of Britain have turned into "theatres of intimidation", Kemi Badenoch has warned in a speech to mark the opening of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.
Speaking just days after a terror attack at a synagogue in the city left two people dead, the Tory leader claimed extremism "has gone unchecked" in the UK. She said this had manifested in Pro-Palestine protests, which are "in fact carnivals of hatred directed at the Jewish homeland".
She cited the use of "asinine slogans" such as 'Globalise the Intifada', saying this "means nothing at all, if it doesn't mean targeting Jewish people for violence".
Ms Badenoch added: "So the message from this conference, from this party, from every decent and right-thinking person in this country must be that we will not stand for it any more. We cannot import and tolerate values hostile to our own.
"We must now draw a line and say that in Britain you can think what you like, and within the bounds of the law you can say what you like, but you have no right to turn our streets into the theatres of intimidation, and we will not let you do so any more."
Ms Badenoch has said she supports the government's efforts to impose restrictions on repeat protests in light of the Manchester terror attack. Nearly 500 people were arrested over protests supporting the proscribed group Palestine Action in central London on Saturday.
Demonstrators defied calls from political leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, to reconsider the event out of respect for the grief of the British Jewish community... (MORE - details)