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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for a social integration strategy to prevent “evil habits” among communities not interested in such.
Badenoch made the call in an interview on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News.
“One thing that I don’t think we have been doing properly in this country is to have a proper immigration strategy and many people assume it’s just something the government does but it has to go well beyond the government, all of the society has to do it,” she said.
“That’s what used to happen when we had immigration in much smaller numbers.
“We have to make sure we have a dominant culture in the UK, our country is not a hotel.”
According to Badenoch, the UK has been ignoring “hard truths” for too long and that she has decided to take a different approach as a new party leader.
She added that a lot more needs to be done on social integration after the Southport killings.
Badenoch said she is pressed on what evidence exists showing the crimes were linked to integration, citing her own personal experience as equalities minister.
She also talked about social integration as a factor in Axel Rudakubana’s stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift dance class.
“If you are being inculcated in hate, you are not integrating well,” Badenoch said. “Some people who are born here are not integrating.”
