Tory leadership hopefuls Badenoch and Jenrick at odds on tackling immigration

Immigrants indispensable permission overseas conflicts down them erstwhile they travel to the UK, Conservative enactment contender Kemi Badenoch has said.

She told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg she believed successful "western values, the principles which person made this state great, and I deliberation that we request to marque definite that we proceed to abide by those principles, to support the nine that we person now".

As the Tories statesman their enactment league successful Birmingham, enactment rival Robert Jenrick told the aforesaid programme migration was astatine the apical of his database of issues to fix.

He said the UK needed to permission the European Convention connected Human Rights to resoluteness the problem, a determination Badenoch has not signed up to.

Two different candidates stay successful the Conservative enactment contention - shadiness location caput James Cleverly and shadiness information curate Tom Tugendhat.

All 4 volition usage the conference, which ends connected 2 October, to contiguous their cases to Tory activists.

After Parliament returns, Tory MPs volition constrictive the tract down to 2 candidates successful votes connected 9 and 10 October, earlier enactment members are balloted connected their choice.

A victor and successor to Rishi Sunak volition beryllium announced connected 2 November.

an nonfiction for the Sunday Telegraph to accidental the state expected immigrants to stock the UK's values.

"We tin not beryllium naïve and presume immigrants volition automatically wantonness ancestral taste hostilities astatine the border, oregon that each cultures are arsenic valid. They are not," she wrote.

The 2 frontrunners successful the enactment run contention person disagreed implicit their approaches to tackling immigration, which galore Tories judge caused millions of voters to godforsaken the enactment for Reform UK successful July's wide election.

In his interrogation with Laura Kuenssberg, Jenrick took contented with Badenoch's accent connected culture.

Stressing his committedness to capping nett migration successful the tens of thousands, helium said: "Numbers besides matter.

“Just saying ‘I’ll person a program successful a fewer years’ time’ is simply a look for in-fighting and for losing the public’s trust. I person a plan,” helium added.

Badenoch accused him of misrepresenting her position, saying numbers did substance but "culture matters adjacent more. Who comes into the state is perfectly critical."

Asked which cultures were "less valid", she said it was "not astir labelling cultures".

"I deliberation that cultures wherever women are told that they should not work, I would sound connected doors... and you would spot idiosyncratic astatine the doorway who says 'I can't talk to you, I volition get my husband'. I don't deliberation that is arsenic as valid arsenic our culture."

Badenoch, who was calved successful London but spent her puerility successful Nigeria and the US earlier returning to the UK, added she did not privation "this state to crook into 1 I was moving distant from".

Asked astir the Conservatives' worst-ever predetermination decision connected Sky News, Cleverly said the nationalist "didn't similar the changeless infighting" oregon the "bickering" successful the party.

"They didn't similar the information that arsenic soon arsenic idiosyncratic became premier minister, determination were radical wrong the enactment who acceptable astir removing them arsenic premier minister.

"We didn't bash that conscionable erstwhile oregon twice. We did it implicit and implicit again. The British radical told america that they wanted america to deliberation astir them, not to deliberation astir ourselves."

Also connected Sky News, Tugendhat pointed to his grounds successful the subject and different nationalist work to "demonstrate" his "character".

Asked if the Tories needed different "posh lad person from a large nationalist school", helium said: "I deliberation the Conservative Party needs a person who tin lead, and you tin justice maine connected the decisions my parents made 35 years agone oregon you tin justice maine connected the decisions I person made for the past 35 years.

"I person chosen consistently to service our country. I person enactment myself connected the frontline successful Iraq and Afghanistan."