Britain 'best place in the world to be black', says top Tory Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch has declared Britain is the best place in the world to be black.
The Business Secretary, a mum of three, told the Conservative Party conference in Manchester: "I tell my children that this is the best country in the world to be black because it is a country that sees people and not labels." Mrs Badenoch, 43, a former Tory leadership hopeful who is tipped for another tilt for the party crown, lashed out at advocates of identity politics who she accused of trying to "re-racialise" society.
Hitting out at Labour, she said: "They want young people to believe a narrative of hopelessness, a narrative that says there is no point in trying because British society is against you and you are better off asking for reparations, a narrative that tells children like mine that the odds are stacked against them."
Addressing grassroots Tory activists, she added: "Conservatives want young people to be proud of their country when others want them to be ashamed.
"It wasn't a tough decision for us to reject the divisive agenda of critical race theory. We believe, as Martin Luther King once said, people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin - and if that puts us in conflict with those who would re-racialise society, who would put up the divisions that have been torn down, then conference, all I can say is bring it on.”
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Mrs Badenoch is among senior ministers expected to be summoned to an emergency Cabinet meeting later today to rubber stamp axing the northern leg of the HS2 railway.
Rishi Sunak is expected to call his top team to a summit on the fringes of the Manchester conference to agree to scrap the route from Birmingham to Manchester. Businesses have blasted the ongoing uncertainty and said not going ahead with the line to the North West would jeopardise investment and jobs.
During her speech, Mrs Badenoch vowed to slash red tape for businesses with an in-depth review of the authorities which supervise their work. She announced the Government would undertake a review of how regulators work during the Conservative Party conference.
A 12-week call for evidence into the role of regulators will seek to create economic growth by freeing businesses of unneeded regulations, as well as provide new benefits for consumers and the environment. Mrs Badenoch said: "I want us to use our Brexit freedoms to scrap unnecessary regulations that hold back firms and hamper growth.
"It's clear that the regulators that enforce the rules can also sometimes be a blocker to businesses, so our review will seek to root out the bad practices with the aim of making companies' lives easier and reducing costs for consumers."
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