Katie Lam spoke ‘imprecisely’ in stating large number of people would ‘need to go home’, says Conservative leader
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The Conservative MP Katie Lam spoke “imprecisely” in stating the party would deport large numbers of legally settled families from the UK, Kemi Badenoch said, adding she had no plans to make tougher immigration rules retrospective.
Badenoch’s comments to reporters after a speech in London end days of confusion over Tory migration policy, particularly over whether many thousands of people who have made lives in the UK could lose their status of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) under a future Conservative government.
In an interview earlier this month, Lam, a shadow Home Office minister, said that the party’s policy was to revoke ILR, and people would “go home” in order to ensure the UK was mostly “culturally coherent”.
