People of the Reform and Restore ilk have been deliberately misleading as to what @KemiBadenoch said in this video. Depressingly it has gathered massive support as so much misinformation does these days. So I am going to transcript what she said and detail how what she has said has been twisted out of context. Does Kemi Badenoch pass any judgement on the eleven banned individuals? No. She explicitly avoids passing any personal or specific judgment on them, stating: "Well, I don't know who those people are... I don't know who those people are." Because she does not know their identities or the details of their cases, she does not comment on whether they specifically deserve to be banned. Instead, she speaks only in broad terms about the general principle that a government has the right to bar people who cause trouble. Does Kemi Badenoch say Keir Starmer is right to ban them? She explicitly argues that it is the fundamental responsibility of a government to keep people out of the country if they are deemed to be a risk or likely to cause trouble. She then uses that principle to pivot the conversation, arguing that the Prime Minister should be applying that same standard more strictly to overall border control, specifically regarding small boats and problematic migrants. She supports the principle of banning people if they are a threat to the nation but does not pass judgement on the eleven banned. "A government has a right to keep people out of the country if they think they're going to cause problems here... I'm not gonna complain about a Prime Minister keeping people out of the country *if* they're causing trouble, that's what they're supposed to do." However, her support of the principle is immediately followed by a political critique. She argues that the Prime Minister needs to apply strictness much more frequently, specifically targeting illegal small boat crossings.
