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Kemi Badenoch’s perfectly legitimate view, that ‘not all cultures are equally valid’ when it comes to deciding who should be allowed to settle in the UK, has been greeted with outrage from the usual suspects.
The UK Tory leadership contender made the point in a piece outlining her approach to immigration for the Sunday Telegraph. She writes that Britain is not simply ‘a dormitory for people to come here and make money’, and that migrants’ cultural backgrounds matter, too. ‘We cannot be naïve and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border’, she adds.
She expanded on her op-ed during a discussion last weekend, on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. ‘Cultures that believe in child marriage, or that women don’t have equal rights’ are not in line with ‘Western principles’, she said.