Badenoch: Farage 'should apologise' for teenage comments

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Kemi Badenoch says she believes that Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage "should apologise" for alleged racist comments while he was a teenager, adding "be a grown up, that's the key thing". Report by Ketchs. 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 that he should apologize. I think what people said decades ago should be deprecated.

00:07What's important is, is this the same person who was doing that many decades ago?

00:12I'm not sure that that's been cleared up. I'm not someone who thinks that historical allegations

00:17should be the main factor in terms of what people do now. It's how they behave now.

00:22And I think the fact that he hasn't been able to apologize when more and more people are coming out,

00:26this isn't one or two people, it's a lot of people. Let's just have an apology. Be a grown-up.

00:30That's the key thing. If you can't apologize for mistakes that you've made,

00:34I think that that shows a certain aspect of one's character. I've apologized for mistakes I've made.

00:39I've apologized for mistakes that my party has made. But I think politicians who can't say,

00:43I'm sorry I was wrong, should not lead the country because it means that they believe that everything they do is right.

00:49They don't listen to other people. The Conservative Party is a party that is self-reflective.

00:54We don't pretend that we were perfect. If we were, we'd still be in government.

00:57And what I'm doing under my leadership is show people that we have changed,

01:01that we learned from our mistakes, and we can do better so we can earn their trust again.

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