“We need to demand that those who come here love this country and will maintain and uphold its traditions, not change them,” Mrs. Badenoch said in a September article for The Telegraph last year.
“Culture is more than food or clothing,” she said. Additionally, some of its traditions may conflict with British principles. We cannot.
Be naïve and believe that all cultures are equally legitimate or that newcomers would immediately give up ancestral ethnic hostility at the border. They aren’t.
The prime minister’s spokesperson responded to questions about Mr. Jenrick’s remarks by saying they were a “distraction from the core issue” of safeguarding minors from sexual assault.
Conservative lord Lord Tariq Ahmad asked the shadow justice minister to “think” about some of his remarks.