{"id":180133,"date":"2025-10-05T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180133\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:41:13","slug":"badenoch-defends-immigration-plans-as-mahmood-says-anger-at-government-justified-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180133\/","title":{"rendered":"Badenoch defends immigration plans as Mahmood says anger at government ‘justified’ – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recap: What we heard this weekpublished at 10:20 BST<\/p>\n

10:20 BST<\/p>\n

\"mahmood<\/p>\n

If you’re just catching up, let’s take a quick look back at what we heard on today’s programme.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was pressed on the government’s response to antisemitism in the wake of Thursday’s attack in Manchester at a Jewish synagogue.<\/p>\n

She said the investigation was progressing and she had been in touch with the families of the victims.<\/p>\n

The home secretary said Jewish people are justified in their anger at the government, adding their concerns are informing proposed new police powers over protests. She insisted that people would still have freedom to protest, but the new laws would make sure the wider community was also protected.<\/p>\n

We also heard from two Manchester-based Rabbis who said antisemitism had been allowed to grow in the UK, and they were not surprised by the attack on a synagogue.<\/p>\n

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch agreed that protest laws needed improvement, but questioned why it had taken the government so long to address them.<\/p>\n

She was then asked about her plans to return 750,000 illegal immigrants from the UK if the Conservatives win the next election. Badenoch insisted her plans, which include leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, “were credible”.<\/p>\n

She also spoke about rowing back on the UK’s climate commitments to ensure the country wasn’t losing out commercially to foreign rivals, and defended her record as party leader, saying she maintains the backing of party members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recap: What we heard this weekpublished at 10:20 BST 10:20 BST If you’re just catching up, let’s take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-180133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}