It was all guns blazing from Kemi Badenoch today. The Tory leader has clashed before with the Guardian – most notably during last year’s contest when she lambasted the paper’s claims of ‘bullying and traumatising behaviour’ when serving in government. And the wokest outlet in all the West was firmly in her sights today when Badenoch gave her big economy speech alongside Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride.
At her presser, the Essex MP was asked whether she sympathised with the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who says that she has been called racist slurs and told to go ‘back home’. She said that:
Just this morning, I read this astonishing piece in the Guardian written by someone in this room. It’s absolutely disgusting, and it was basically telling Shabana Mahmood to stay in her lane and not even think about talking about migration. I think that’s the sort of thing that she will face. I know this because when we were in government, we were called fascists, we were called racists, all sorts of nasty things for doing what the public wants us to do. This is not a race issue. This is about making sure that we control our borders and ensure that our country is one that the people who came here many years ago to live in continues to be safe and socially cohesive.
The piece in question – titled ‘Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish’ – was penned by John Crace, the paper’s sketchwriter. A Badenoch ally derided the ‘fantasy’ piece, telling Mr S that ‘People like Crace want ethnic minorities to stay in their lane and do as the left wants. But more and more minorities are shifting to the right because they’re sick of being used as a shield to do stupid things on migration. It’s about time someone called Crace out for his loathsome rants.’
Clearly Kemi believes she is the one to do exactly that…
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