Suella Braverman has launched a scathing attack on Kemi Badenoch for throwing “puerile insults” in a bitter row over proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK spokesman for Education, Skills & Equalities hit out at the Conservative leader’s “stupid personal attack” during an interview with the People’s Channel on Tuesday.
Speaking to Britain’s Newsroom, Mrs Badenoch was questioned on the ex-Tory MP’s claim that “no cabinet minister supported her attempts to ban the hate marches or to proscribe the IRGC”.
The Tory leader denied Mrs Braverman’s claim and declared that she is simply “making excuses for failure” in her previous role as Home Secretary.
Mrs Badenoch said: “It was never raised in any Cabinet meeting that I was in. That’s her side of the story, and to be quite frank, if I was Home Secretary, I would have got the things I wanted done.
“I think just hearing these excuses for failure about how she was unable to do her job and blaming everyone else is a bit pathetic and she needs to move on.”
Responding to Mrs Badenoch’s remarks, Mrs Braverman declared that she is “very proud” of the things she achieved as Home Secretary, “given the very challenging situation that the Conservative Party was in”.
She swiped: “I think Kemi loves to throw puerile insults to people. I’ve been living with it for quite a few years in the Conservative Party, and it’s one of the reasons why I left.
Suella Braverman has hit back at Kemi Badenoch’s ‘stupid personal attack’ after accusing the Reform MP of ‘making excuses’
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“I set up the Grooming Gangs Task Force, it led to hundreds of arrests and safeguarded thousands of girls.
“I delivered a record number of police officers on our streets, and I passed laws to deal with militant eco protesters and to strengthen our national security.
“So those things that I achieved as Home Secretary, I’ll be proud to stand by.”
Admitting there were things that she “failed on” in the Tory Government, the Reform MP made clear that they only failed because they were “blocked” by colleagues, including Mrs Badenoch.
She explained: “What I failed on was to cut visas because the Conservative Prime Minister and Conservative colleagues, I’m afraid including Kemi Badenoch, objected to my calls to cut visas.
“What I failed to do was to persuade a Conservative Prime Minister and a Conservative cabinet to leave the European Convention on Human Rights to stop the boats, because they failed to do it.
Kemi Badenoch told the People’s Channel that there was ‘
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GB NEWS“What I failed to do was to persuade my Conservative ministerial colleagues to proscribe the IRGC, because none of them wanted to do it because they were cowards, they lacked the backbone, and they utterly failed the British people.”
Criticising the Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch for wanting to “erase history”, Mrs Braverman demanded the Tories “apologise” to the Jewish community for not supporting her calls to proscribe the IRGC in 2022.
She told GB News: “The Conservative Party today wants everybody to forget their track record in Government, but we can’t forget it because that’s what their actions were, and actions speak louder than words.
“Instead of criticising those of us who tried and struggled to make those changes in Government, Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative Party should be apologising to the Jewish community today, because that attack on those ambulances could have been avoided.
Mrs Braverman declared that the Conservatives ‘owe the Jewish community an apology’ for not proscribing the IRGC
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“The rise in antisemitism could have been avoided, the hatred that we see on our streets could have been avoided, had a Conservative Government taken the action to proscribe the IRGC and ban the hate marches when they had the power and the opportunity to do it.”
Questioned by host Andrew Pierce on what difference proscribing the IRGC would make, the Reform MP explained that there is a “very direct threat to us in the UK by the IRGC”, and banning them would give the police “greater powers of arrest and investigation”.
She said: “The IRGC is a sponsor of global terrorism, I call it the head of the snake. It funds, resources and directs extremist Islamist terrorism around the world.
“Whether it’s Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle East, or whether it’s through proxies and Islamist terrorism in the UK.
“If we were to proscribe them, the police would have greater powers of arrest and investigation into the IRGC, which they currently lack, because of this Government and the previous Government’s weakness and refusal to act.”