# Kemi Badenoch criticises Reform UK in Tory conference speech

https://mins.news/en/video/90087

- Guardian News, 2026-10-07 17:16 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hePKZC1ZYg

> Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform UK at the party conference in Birmingham on Wednesday for suggesting that Black people cannot be English. She said many Reform supporters were “our people”, but that the Conservatives had let them down and they deserved better than Reform UK.

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