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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has sparked a major political row by labelling the Labour government's welfare spending in the latest Budget 'unchristian'.
Our City Reporter, Samuel Norman, breaks down why Badenoch says compulsory taxation for welfare is at odds with Christian values of charity and community. This is part of an increasingly personal and fiery feud between her and Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
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There have been a lot of reactions to
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this week's budget, especially obviously
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from the leader of the opposition, Kem
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Bay, but um today she's come out with a
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bit of a different kind of criticism to
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what you'd normally expect.
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Yeah. So Kemy's been really fiery in her
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response as we saw with her response to
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the budget on Wednesday. She really did
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pull no punches uh when she went in on
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Rachel Reeves. But today we've had a bit
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of a different line out out of her. uh
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she's really focused on the welfare
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spending which as we've digested the
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budget and as we've looked into the
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figures a bit more and as some of the
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stuff we're seeing from the OBR it's
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really looking like a lot of these taxes
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were raised to fund the welfare spending
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uh and this morning Kem said um the
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higher welfare spending is uncchristian
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now it's not Kemy's first dabble in uh
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going a bit biblical we saw actually a
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few months ago I think it was a few
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weeks ago even on I want to say um it
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was 17th of November she quoted St.
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Paul's advice to Timothy in the Bible as
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she argued anyone who does not provide
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for their relatives and especially for
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their own household has denied the
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faith. Now she's gone biblical again
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when uh pressed in an interview if um
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the budget was on Christian. She said it
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could be argued that. And then she
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doubled down on the comments um saying
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the Christian tradition is about
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communities and families and charity not
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about compulsory taxation in order to
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pay for welfare.
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That's not the normal kind of uh back
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and forth you'd expect.
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No. And it's really goes to show how
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this sort of dynamic between Kemmy the
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prime minister and now the chancellor
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has really strayed from just the the
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typical policy as we see at the dispatch
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box. Um it's gone a lot into feminism
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over the last few days. We've seen uh
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after the chancellor did a few of her
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profiles where she said she was sick of
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the mansplaining. That's been something
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Kemy's really gone into. She said she
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was speaking to the chancellor woman
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towoman in her response on Wednesday.
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Saw that. And then Yeah. And then then
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just this morning she uh said the budget
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was damaging to feminism. She says,
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"We've now had two bad budgets delivered
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by a woman and that didn't really set a
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good example." So, it's really gone into
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the personal. Um, Kemy's continued to
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double down her comments. Reeves has
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tried to um maybe not go back as as
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directly in in that in that line, but um
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yeah, Kemy's really laser focused on
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this sort of line of uh line of attack.
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Do you think we're now past the era of
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Alistister Campbell's We Don't Do God?
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Do you think we're back in back in the
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kind of uh theological political area in
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UK politics?
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It was an interesting move and I think
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that that's the thing we we get with
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Kem. She does just pull no punches and
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she'll say it like she was asked um
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relating to that comment about the
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advice with um uh Timothy. She she was
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asked about that again. She was asked if
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her budget was on Christian, she doubled
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down and then even went further. She's
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she's shown now she's not shying away
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from these sort of comments. She will
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pull no punches. She called the budget a
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budget for benefit streets on Wednesday
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and I think this is really her line of
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attacking and it's seemed to have
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impressed a lot of the right-wing and
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garnered a lot of favor with the Tories
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who a couple of months ago were actually
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having questions about her as leader but
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it's if if anything this has actually
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strummed up a lot of affection for her
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I'd say on that side of the the
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political aisle.
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