Badenoch praises Home Secretary's 'brave' asylum reforms

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch praises Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood as "very brave" for going against Labour's wishes with a new set of asylum reforms. However, Ms Badenoch warns the reforms will not be possible unless Britain leaves the ECHR. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think the Home Secretary is being very brave because she's clearly going against her party's

00:04wishes, but we need to sort out the crisis at our borders. I remember the last two years of

00:10Conservative government where we put in measure after measure to control immigration. Labour

00:14voted against every single one of them. What's interesting is that the powers she's using now

00:19for visa sanctions, she voted against them. She wouldn't have those powers if we hadn't created

00:24them. But as you saw, throughout the time of the last few years, we kept running into endless

00:32legal obstacles. That is why I've said we need to leave the ECHR if we're really going to control

00:36our borders. Shabana Mahmoud doesn't want to do that, so while we'll support the measures,

00:40I'm not sure they'll work.

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