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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Badenoch appears to slap down Patel over migration figures

Kemi Badenoch said her party would ‘tell the truth’ about what it got wrong in government after her shadow foreign secretary declined to apologise for record-high immigration figures (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch appeared to slap down Dame Priti Patel after she declined to apologise for record-high immigration figures.

Appearing on The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots programme on Thursday, the shadow foreign secretary said it was “totally distortionary” to suggest the previous government had “thrown open our borders” to the rest of the world.

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