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The ‘shocking tactics’ of Kemi Badenoch

9 January 2025

3:12 AM

9 January 2025

3:12 AM

Whitehall is being swept by moral outrage. Ministers, in full This Is Spinal Tap mode, have turned their pious horror up to 11 and Keir Starmer has accused the opposition of a ‘shocking tactic’, preferring ‘the elevation of the desire for retweets over any real interest in the safeguarding of children’.

What dark perfidy has been done? What cynical political stunt have the Conservatives pulled, staining their hands with such baseness?

Kemi Badenoch has tabled a reasoned amendment to the Children’s

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