US-style blanket travel bans could be 'viable' in UK, says Tory chief Badenoch

Published on 06/06/2025 - 17:14 GMT+2

The leader of nan guidance Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has indicated that a US-style broad recreation prohibition connected overseas citizens could beryllium "viable" successful nan United Kingdom, stressing that it should nary longer beryllium nan "world's softest touch."

The Leader of nan Opposition said connected Friday that Britain is being "mugged" by forbidden migration, section media reported.

She added "parliament needs to beryllium capable to determine who comes into nan country, for really agelong and who needs to leave," explaining that this tin beryllium done done measures specified arsenic recreation bans.

"There are scenarios wherever this is viable."

In a resurrection of his arguable first word "Muslim ban", Trump connected Wednesday announced recreation bans to nan United States for citizens from 12 countries he has deemed "out of control."

It will use to group from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, nan Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

The prohibition is group to spell into effect connected Monday and will barroom nationals from these countries from entering nan US unless they suffice for an exemption.

Travel restrictions will besides travel into unit for citizens of a further 7 countries connected nan aforesaid day.

However, Badenoch past went connected to opportunity she didn't afloat support a Trump-style prohibition for nan UK, adding that she hadn't seen which countries were affected.

"That doesn’t mean that I work together pinch what Donald Trump has done. I'm overmuch much focused on…what's happening here."

"Britain is blocked"

Badenoch made nan remarks aft a reside astatine nan Royal United Services Institute successful Westminster successful which she launched a committee tasked pinch analysing leaving nan European Convention connected Human Rights (ECHR).

The world quality authorities pact betwixt nan 47 states which are members of nan Council of Europe (CoE) protects nan basal authorities and freedoms of people.

She based on that nan UK had "lost power of nan asylum system" and is "being blocked".

Referring to nan ECHR, she vowed to crackdown connected "lawfare" which she said is obstructing separator power and is utilized to extremity migrant deportations.

“I person ever said that if we request to time off nan normal we should and having now considered nan mobility intimately I do judge that we will apt request to time off because I americium yet to spot a clear and coherent measurement to hole this wrong our existent ineligible structures."

Badenoch has enlisted a elder barrister to reappraisal nan legalities surrounding nan a imaginable UK withdrawal from nan ECHR.

The elder lawyer is expected to supply his study astatine nan Tory statement convention later this year, astatine which constituent nan Tory leader will make a last determination connected nan ECHR "problem." However, she stressed she would not do truthful without a clear plan.

Leader of nan far-right Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, stated earlier this twelvemonth that nan first point he would do arsenic Prime Minister would beryllium to retreat nan UK from nan ECHR.

Meanwhile, nan existent Labour authorities has ruled retired leaving it.

Last month, nine EU countries signed an unfastened missive calling for nan ECHR to beryllium reinterpreted to let for argumentation changes connected migration. The signatories, who judge it should beryllium easier to expel migrants who perpetrate crimes, said nan ECHR's mentation of nan normal should beryllium examined.

The CoE's Secretary Alain Berset criticised their politicising of nan court.