Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has hit back at heckling Labour MPs, stating she “won’t take any lectures” from them as she spoke in the Commons.
The leader of the opposition has praised Shabana Mahmood for her “fresh ideas” and said she “wants her to succeed” in her mission to tackle illegal immigration.
It come after The Home Secretary announced that she will is rewrite major parts of Britain’s asylum framework, including the way the European Convention on Human Rights is interpreted by UK judges.
This is in a bid to prevent asylum seekers using the ECHR’s (European Convention on Human Rights) Article 8, under which family life claims are often used to avoid deportation.
Mrs Badenoch responded by saying that although the reforms we “a start” they do not go far enough.
The Conservative Leader said: “It’s not enough, but it is a start. I want to praise the Home Secretary. She is bringing a new energy to the job.
“She seems to get what many on the benches behind refuse to say. She’s right to say that ‘if we fail to deal with this crisis, we will draw more people to a path that starts with anger and ends in hatred’.”
As the leader of the opposition spoke, she was loudly heckled by Labour MPs.
She responded: “”Anyone who cannot see by now the simply tinkering with the current system isn’t going to fix this problem is either living in la la land, or being wilfully obstructive.
“It is a shame that it has taken Labour a year in office to realise there is a border crisis. I am afraid to tell her the what she is announcing is not going to work on its own, and some of these measures will in fact take us backwards.
“I say that to her with no ill will, and I hope she believes me when I say I genuinely want her to succeed.”
“[We] are not going to take any lectures from the people who voted down every single measure to control immigration”.
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