Badenoch attack over immigration backfires as PM describes Tory record
The PM described Ms Badenoch as the “champion” of “a one nation experiment in open borders”.
Mrs Badenoch said during Prime Minister Questions: “Last week, the Prime Minister didn’t seem to want to talk about appointing fraudsters to his Cabinet. In fact, he seemed to want to talk about immigration. So let’s talk about immigration.
“He has relaunched yet again, many new targets, six milestones, five missions, but why was cutting immigration not a priority?”
Mr Starmer replied: “I’m glad she now wants to talk about immigration, last week she said she didn’t, and for good reason, because the previous government presided over record high levels of immigration. The figures just a few weeks ago, nearly a million on net migration.
“That is unprecedented, a one nation experiment in open borders under the last government, and she was the champion, she stood up and praised the then Tory home secretary for listening to her on removing caps on migration visas.
“So she was applauding it, now she’s curious about what she was campaigning for. We will drive it down. We will drive down lawful migration. We will drive down illegal migration.”
