Ministers face backlash after Epping asylum hotel injunction overturned Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir Starmer ‘puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people’. Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2025
Voices: When it comes to Reform, Labour and the Tories are making the same mistake COMMENT: In directing their fire at Nigel Farage, Reform’s opponents risk building him up, helping him seize the agenda – and further exposing their own limitations and failures over immigration, says Andrew Grice The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025
Post-Brexit licences for exporting food to EU cost UK firms up to £65m last year Government to promise it will scrap existing scheme by reaching new deal with Brussels in next 18 months The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2025
Farage ‘copying our homework’ with immigration plans, Badenoch says At a press conference on Tuesday, Reform UK pledged to scale up detention capacity for asylum seekers and increase deportations. The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025
Commuters playing loud music to face ‘swift justice’ under Tories’ proposal The shadow transport secretary said passengers should not have to ‘endure somebody else’s choice of crap music’ The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2025
Kemi Badenoch reveals ‘hysterical’ level of personal attacks faced as a black woman Tory leader tells Sunday Times she is surprised at amount of racism she has experienced since taking up post The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2025
Badenoch calls Jenrick supporters hoping to oust her ‘sore losers’ Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also hit out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes. The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2025
Kemi Badenoch hits out at 'hysterical' attacks from racist trolls Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes Evening Standard · Aug 23, 2025
Kemi Badenoch: It is shameful of councils to remove St George’s Cross flags The Conservative leader said the flying of English flags should be ‘welcomed’, rather than ‘seen as an act of rebellion’. Evening Standard · Aug 23, 2025
Lucy Connolly to speak out for first time since ending 10-month jail term for hate tweet The wife of a Conservative councillor is understood to be doing limited media interviews a day after walking free from jail Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2025
Lucy Connolly to speak out for first time since being released from prison The former childminder, from Northampton, left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning. The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2025
The Guardian view on Conservative asylum policy: the moderate Tory tradition faces extinction Editorial: Kemi Badenoch is presiding over the collapse of a party that was once a broad church into a narrow hardline sect The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2025
‘Hypocritical’ Badenoch calls for Tory councils to launch legal challenges against asylum hotels Tory leader encourages local authorities to ‘take the same steps’ as Epping council The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2025
Chris Philp challenged on why he didn’t encourage councils to take legal action over asylum hotels when Tories were in power Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has defended Kemi Badenoch’s call for Conservative councils to consider legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers. The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2025
Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2025 People have ‘every right’ to protest asylum hotels – shadow home secretary Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2025 Action to tackle number of asylum seekers coming to UK is important step to ‘restoring order’, says Cooper – as it happened Home secretary responds to statistics showing rise in number of people housed in hotels in UK, saying Labour has overseen increased numbers of returns of asylum seekers
The National (Scotland) · Aug 21, 2025 Kemi Badenoch tells Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels in 'pathetic stunt' Kemi Badenoch has called for more Conservative councils to launch legal challenges over asylum hotels as the Government faces a potential revolt…
Evening Standard · Aug 20, 2025 Labour councils now want to shut down migrant hotels in wake of Epping injunction Tamworth and Wirral councils, both controlled by Labour, have joined a number of Conservative and Reform UK-run councils in investigating whether they can mount legal challenges
The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025 Badenoch urges Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels in court Epping secured a temporary injunction blocking the use of the Essex town’s Bell Hotel as accommodation for asylum seekers on planning grounds.
The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025 Voices: Politicians making mischief over asylum hotels are in for an unwelcome surprise COMMENT: Conservatives are revelling in the government’s turmoil following a court ruling to close a migrant hotel in Essex – but their double standards on the issue will come back and bite them, says Andrew Grice
The National (Scotland) · Aug 19, 2025 Nigel Farage claims court ruling removing asylum seekers from hotel as 'victory' NIGEL Farage has claimed a court decision allowing an English council to remove asylum seekers from a hotel as a “victory”.
Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2025 ‘A victory for mums and dads’ as asylum seekers to be removed from Essex hotel Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at Labour for ‘putting young male illegal immigrants’ in towns
The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025 Martin Cruz Smith’s road to Wigan pie Brief letters: Obituary | Justin Welby’s successor | Kemi Badenoch | Word Wheel | Robert Jenrick
Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025 More than 100 migrants in one vessel thought to have bumped crossings to 27,799 Home Office figures show 325 migrants crossed the English Channel by small boat on Wednesday.
The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2025 Who are the right-wing politicians and influencers joining JD Vance on his Cotswolds holiday? JD Vance’s trip to the UK has seen him dine with a number of right wing figures, from Reform leader Nigel Farage to Cambridge academic James Orr