Badenoch says Brits are not as wealthy as they think and refuse to “live within their means”
Mr Badenoch accused Labor of making a mistake and, using pre-explained text, said the previous Conservative government had also made mistakes. Watch at 9:36am and 11:45am.
Mr Badenoch goes on to say that Britain is not as rich as we think.
If we’re going to turn our country around, we’re going to have to say some things that are hard to hear.
Let’s start with our problem. We think we are wealthy, but we live off the legacy of previous generations, a complacency that Britain will always be wealthy, and a refusal to live within our means. Masu.
We owe it to the next generation to leave them a legacy, not to mortgage their future to make our lives easier. This will require some tough, soul-searching conversations that we are not having right now.
Energy supplies are fragile, more fragile than ever, and our energy, which should be safe, cheap and abundant, is far too expensive.
Demographics are destiny. People are having fewer children. Our society is aging. We are living longer and need more support towards the end of life. Look at your productivity. The group of people working to support the growing number of people unable or unwilling to work is shrinking.
The information age means it’s easier than ever for rogue governments to destabilize us and for rogue companies and nations to steal our know-how.
And no “ifs” or “buts” can accommodate all the millions of people who want to come here from other places. Our country is our home. It’s not a hotel. If people arriving don’t want to integrate into British culture, they shouldn’t be here.
share
main events
Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature
Cooper suggested lack of national investigative powers would not preclude local investigations
Bernard Jenkin (R) told Yvette Cooper that he welcomed her statement and said he thought she had come a long way since last week, but said local investigations needed the power to compel witnesses and production. He said he thinks so. of documents. They should have these powers, he said.
Mr Cooper said the best protection for victims would come from police action. And she said previous local inquiries did not have the powers of a national inquiry (which could order the production of documents and witnesses). But these investigations “were still able to uncover serious issues and also make significant recommendations,” she said.
share
Shadow home secretary Chris Phillip says Labour’s plans for five site inspections are “completely inadequate”
Shadow home secretary Chris Philip last week accused Keir Starmer of “smearing” those concerned about child rape by suggesting they were far-right.
(This is a misleading explanation of what Starmer actually said.)
He said the publication of local surveys in five towns was insufficient.
The announcement made by the Home Secretary today is completely inadequate. The investigation only covers parts of the affected towns and does not appear to have the necessary legal powers. That’s why we need a full national public inquiry, covering the whole country and with the necessary powers under the Inquiry Act to obtain the evidence we need.
share
Updated to 15.42 GMT
Here’s Peter Walker’s story about Yvette Cooper’s announcement:
share
Mr Cooper also said the Home Office would step up support for police to tackle online abuse, including funding for undercover online detectives to infiltrate live streams and chat rooms.
share
Mr Cooper said the Home Office would fund more local studies, starting with Telford and four other trial areas.
Cooper said local surveys can be more effective than national surveys.
So she asked Tom Crowther, who investigated the Telford case, to develop “a new framework for the victim-centred, community-led investigations that are needed”.
She says these will start in Oldham and four other trial areas.
And this includes support for councils who want to explore “other ways to support victims, including local committees”.
Mr Cooper said an additional £5 million would be made available to support these investigations.
share
Mr Cooper said Louise Casey would carry out a three-month audit into the extent of abuse by gangs, including looking into the ethnicity of offenders.
But Cooper says looking at historical examples is not enough. She continues:
There are currently 127 major police investigations underway across 29 different police forces into child sexual exploitation and gang grooming. Many large-scale investigations have involved Pakistani gangs, and evidence from the police force shows exploitation and abuse across different communities and ethnicities.
She says there isn’t enough data on ethnicity. She said she called for an overhaul to publish data covering not only when investigations begin, but also when they end.
And she said she had asked her crossbench colleague, former civil servant Louise Case, to carry out a “rapid audit” of gang-based exploitation across the country and make recommendations.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has concluded that the available data and evidence do not provide an accurate picture of the prevalence of child sexual exploitation. Therefore, this audit aims to fill that gap.
Cooper said the audit will consider evidence not previously available. It said it would “appropriately examine ethnic data and the demographics of the gangs involved and their victims.”
Mr Cooper said Mr Casey was qualified to do this because he had made a “no-holds-barred” report of child abuse in Rotherham.
Mr Cooper said Ms Casey would spend three months on the audit, which could begin before she began work on the social care commission she was asked to chair in the government. means.
share
Updated to 15.42 GMT
Mr Cooper said the government would introduce stronger penalties for grooming and that systematic abuse and exploitation would become a serious factor.
She said the powers of the Independent Child Sexual Abuse Review Board would be expanded so it would not only cover historic cases before 2013. This means any victim will be able to request a review of their case without having to go back to court. The institutions that failed them.
She said she was writing to all chief constables asking them to review historic gang exploitation cases where no further action was taken.
share
Mr Cooper announces timetable for implementation of child abuse inquiry recommendations before Easter
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Security Minister Jess Phillips was meeting with survivors of sexual abuse in Oldham today.
She said she would tell MPs what the next steps would be.
She said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) completed its report in 2022 after seven years of investigation.
She said the government would bring forward the timeline for implementing the IICSA report’s recommendations before Easter.
Four of the 20 recommendations relate to the Home Office. They are accepted in full.
And all recommendations in IICSA’s standalone report on grooming gangs, published in February 2022, will be implemented.
share
Yvette Cooper speaks to MPs about gang raids
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has just begun issuing a House of Commons statement on gang raids.
share
Mr Badenoch’s Speech – Instant Verdict
Kemi Badenoch’s problem is that she leads a party with a dismal track record in government and has yet to do much to convince voters that she is different. Excerpts of her speech released in advance included hints that she was willing to address the issue. Because in those sentences she went further than ever before in disavowing the Conservative Party’s record on Brexit. (See 9:36 a.m.) But overall, the speech did not live up to the expectations generated by overnight previews. Mr. Badenoch’s enthusiasm for telling the truth seemed to be extremely limited, and once I understood the preliminary explanation (mainly the opening part of the speech), the rest of the speech sounded very familiar. The analysis of its shortcomings, submitted at 11:45 a.m., is still valid.
Sam Coates of Sky News has a point in pointing out that the overall mood is negative and gloomy. None of it was uplifting.
But Nigel Farage has found the joke. He posted this on social media.
A total of 21 people are currently watching Kemi Badenoch’s speech on Facebook, causing her YouTube stream to crash.
It’s great that she understands the digital age.
This is a reference to Mr Badenoch’s tweet about the Reform UK membership ticker during the Christmas break, in which he claimed Mr Farage “doesn’t understand the digital age”.
share
Updated to 15.04 GMT
Mr Badenoch downplayed the need for an apology for the Conservative Party’s record, saying it was more important to remove Labor from office.
Q: (From audience member Katie Boles) Is there anything you would like to apologize to voters on behalf of the Conservative Party? And do you think Donald Trump’s election will bring about a “change of atmosphere”?
In his apology, Mr Badenoch said:
Last month, when we gave a speech about immigration, it was me confessing openly and admitting that we made a mistake, but recently I was knocking on doors and I was on the doorstep. I was apologizing to people. I said, “I’m not interested in your apology. I want you to get these people out. I’m going to focus on that.”
Regarding the vibe, Badenoch said:
I think the situation has been in flux for at least 10 years. Approximately every 18 months there is a change in tone and a new version is introduced. As a party, we must respond flexibly.
That’s it.
Mr. Badenoch fielded many questions, but none from the left-wing press.
share
Badenoch says the public is “not interested in lawsuits over membership numbers”, drawing a clear line between disputes with Reform UK
Q: Do you think the last Conservative government should have investigated the gang raids and do you still stand by the claim that Reform UK membership numbers are wrong?
Regarding the inquiry, Mr Badenoch said he supported a national inquiry into gang grooming. That wasn’t her view at the time, but what happened after that, it’s her view now.
Regarding the controversy over Reform UK’s membership numbers (she claimed Reform was making up the numbers, which Reform had provided evidence to disprove), Ms Badenoch said:
I’m on standby between the things I made back then. If you read[the tweet]carefully, you’ll see that I’m saying something very specific.
However, I don’t think the public is interested in litigation over membership numbers. They want to know what we are going to do for them. That is the content of my speech today.
In his tweet, Mr Badenoch claimed that the Reform UK membership numbers shown in the ticker were false, but he also claimed that Reform UK membership figures were false when Reform was last published – the latest figures. They argue that it is wrong to claim that Reform has more members than the Conservative Party because of the use of The figures have not been disclosed.
Her answer today suggests that she wants to draw the line under extramarital affairs.
share
Updated to 14.46 GMT
