Tory leadership candidate says some arriving in UK ‘hate Israel’ and voiced concern about people bringing ‘ancestral ethnic hostilities’

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Kemi Badenoch has said “not all cultures are equally valid” when it comes to deciding who should be allowed into the UK, as she expressed her shock about “the number of recent immigrants to the UK who hate Israel”.

The Tory leadership contender, who says she speaks with “conviction and clarity”, called for a new integration strategy that will take into account the fact that not all immigrants will “automatically abandon [their] ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border” as “their feet may be in the UK, but their heads and hearts are still back in their country of origin”.