Kemi Badenoch Refuses to Sack London Conservative Leader Backing Far-Right Group Demanding Mass Deportations
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Kemi Badenoch has been told to "show some backbone"and expel their London Assembly leader Susan Hall, after she joined the advisory board of a far-right group demanding the mass deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK.
In a post on social media, expelled ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe said that he was "absolutely delighted to have Susan Hall AM, Leader of the Conservative Group on the London Assembly and the party's 2024 London mayoral candidate, join our Restore Britain Advisory Board". He went on to call her a "proper campaigner with fantastic experience".
Lowe's new outfit claims that it is not a political party, but rather a "movement" aiming to "carpet-bomb the cancer of wokery", and that wants to entice members from any party it can "if they share our values and want to be part of a bottom-up movement that has the potential to transform Britain".
On the group's web page, it has pledged to "ban the burqa", "defund the BBC", "restore the death penalty", "deport all illegal migrants" and achieve "net negative immigration". The group goes much further than many political outfits that support reducing migration, wanting to actively see mass emigration by removing millions of legal residents of the country.
In the wake of grooming scandals, Lowe said earlier this year: "If whole [Pakistani] communities have to be deported, then so be it".
Lib Dem London spokesperson Luke Taylor MP Hall's backing for Restore Britain shows either her values "are out of step with the Conservative Party, or the Conservative Party has lurched even further to the right out of desperation."
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Challenged on Hall's far-right endorsement on Wednesday, a Conservative party spokesperson defended her, telling journalists Lowe "is an independent MP & his is a non-aligned, non-partisan movement".
In a statement to the London Centric Substack, Hall said: "I have yet to meet with any other [Restore Britain] board members to discuss policy, and as I understand it no policies have been voted on or supported. My engagement thus far has been one conversation with Rupert Lowe."
"I support those who migrate here with a view to integrate and help build our communities, and I do not support their deportation. However, I am deeply concerned about those who do not integrate, or who commit crimes, who should not be here."
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Kemi Badenoch has been told to "show some backbone"and expel their London Assembly leader Susan Hall, after she joined the advisory board of a far-right group demanding the mass deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK.
In a post on social media, expelled ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe said that he was "absolutely delighted to have Susan Hall AM, Leader of the Conservative Group on the London Assembly and the party's 2024 London mayoral candidate, join our Restore Britain Advisory Board". He went on to call her a "proper campaigner with fantastic experience".
Lowe's new outfit claims that it is not a political party, but rather a "movement" aiming to "carpet-bomb the cancer of wokery", and that wants to entice members from any party it can "if they share our values and want to be part of a bottom-up movement that has the potential to transform Britain".
On the group's web page, it has pledged to "ban the burqa", "defund the BBC", "restore the death penalty", "deport all illegal migrants" and achieve "net negative immigration". The group goes much further than many political outfits that support reducing migration, wanting to actively see mass emigration by removing millions of legal residents of the country.
In the wake of grooming scandals, Lowe said earlier this year: "If whole [Pakistani] communities have to be deported, then so be it".
Lib Dem London spokesperson Luke Taylor MP Hall's backing for Restore Britain shows either her values "are out of step with the Conservative Party, or the Conservative Party has lurched even further to the right out of desperation."
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Challenged on Hall's far-right endorsement on Wednesday, a Conservative party spokesperson defended her, telling journalists Lowe "is an independent MP & his is a non-aligned, non-partisan movement".
In a statement to the London Centric Substack, Hall said: "I have yet to meet with any other [Restore Britain] board members to discuss policy, and as I understand it no policies have been voted on or supported. My engagement thus far has been one conversation with Rupert Lowe."
"I support those who migrate here with a view to integrate and help build our communities, and I do not support their deportation. However, I am deeply concerned about those who do not integrate, or who commit crimes, who should not be here."
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