Kemi Badenoch: "Why Immigrants Must Adopt Western Values"

UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch: "I don’t want the United Kingdom to become the kind of place everyone else is running away from. Someone has to defend it. When people come to a country, they should want to be a part of that country. We’re not a hotel. This is our home, and we need to take care of it.

It’s not about bringing the culture from the other place and turning the UK into the place you just came from. If I wanted to be in Nigeria, I would have moved back to Nigeria. I don’t want to recreate Nigeria in the UK, and I think there are many people who come from countries where they want to recreate what they know.

That’s bad for social cohesion, and it’s bad for the very things that made the UK what it is. There are things I call liberal values, like freedom of speech, equality under the law. People don’t understand how special this is.

Freedom. Being treated the same no matter who you are, whether you’re the poorest or the richest person, the presumption of innocence—something that gets thrown away with cancel culture. We have to fight for these things.

I know what it’s like to live in a place that doesn’t have these things, so it’s very, very precious—and I will die to protect those things."