December 8, 2024
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Kemi Badenoch failed to take advantage of Brexit, says Sir Bill Cash


He later wrote: “Robert Jenrick uniquely resigned in the national interest when he recognised the Government’s failure to make the immigration laws work (the latest IPSOS polling shows immigration continues to be seen as the biggest issue facing Britain).

“I note that she remained in office, despite the ‘failure to get the job done’. This reinforces my view that Robert Jenrick is the right choice to be the Leader of the Conservative Party.”

Labour scrapped the European scrutiny committee on July 30.


Jenrick is the right man for all the right reasons

By Sir Bill Cash

In common with Daniel Hannan, David Frost, Mark Francois and Jacob Rees-Mogg, I have been involved in matters relating to the EU for many years since I entered parliament in 1984. I sat on the European scrutiny committee from 1985 until I retired from parliament at the general election and was chairman for fourteen years from 2010.

It is now over to the party members to decide between the two candidates. As with many others from the Party membership, I have been evermore convinced from the beginning of this contest that Robert Jenrick is the right man to be the leader of the Conservative Party and for all the right reasons. This includes in particular the fact he alone resigned from a government that had failed. 

Far from running away from the problem, he had the courage and the conviction to resign from the Cabinet on one of the most fundamental questions facing the United Kingdom – the failure to deal effectively with the immigration issue and make the legislation work. 

He put his country first before his own political career. With all his direct legal and ministerial experience, he understands the issues, which is why he voted to get the immigration laws right, many of which were embedded in EU laws made during our membership.

As I said at the party conference, and given the enormous number of previous Conservative voters who voted for Reform that lost us around 100 seats, this immigration issue was a critical factor in our losing the general election. Starmer, Davey and Farage would all regard Mr Jenrick as the person they would least like to be leader. 

He has a plan, he has a strategy, he has 10 principles that he has set out, including self-government, sovereignty and leaving the ECHR.



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