The Tory leadership race is ramping up — and so is Kemi Badenoch’s anti-Reform rhetoric. The contender for the top job hasn’t held back on her views of Nigel Farage this week, and the back and forth looks set to continue…
The Reform leader has been rather uncomplimentary about Badenoch of late — tweeting furiously on the eve of the Conservative Party conference:
Kemi Badenoch has spent weeks positioning herself as tough on immigration. But in 2018 she campaigned in parliament to increase legal migration, and was the biggest champion for students bringing in dependents. I don’t believe a word that she says on anything.
Ouch.
In retaliation, during her leadership interview with GB News’s Christopher Hope on Monday, the wannabe leader blasted Farage’s right-wing rabble — remarking that the party’s leadership are not ‘real conservatives’ or ‘serious people’. Despite Jacob Rees-Mogg cautioning the Tory frontrunner that ‘it’s a mistake to dismiss [Farage]’, Badenoch has now launched a further attack on the Reform MP today.
Taking to Twitter, the Tory leadership hopeful posted a link to a 2022 article written by Farage himself – about the last Conservative leadership contest. In it, the Reform leader writes:
Of those left in the contest, only Kemi Badenoch has the genuine conviction to talk about legal and illegal immigration, completing Brexit by leaving the ECHR and ending the poison that has been taught to our children in schools. Her manner is refreshing in comparison to what we have become used to in Westminster politics.
How times change…
Badenoch is of course rather keen to remind Farage about his change of heart, posting an acid-tongued dig on Twitter:
I preferred Nigel’s earlier work. He used to talk about me as the only one with conviction to tackle illegal and legal immigration… but since seeing me as the next Conservative leader and a threat to winning back Reform voters, he’s stopped doing so. Oh well…
Crikey. The gloves are coming off…
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