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WATCH: Kemi Badenoch warns David Lammy to 'get a grip' on Britain's prison system
Nov 7, 2025
Kemi Badenoch has declared it is "time for heads to roll" at the BBC after the broadcaster upheld complaints against veteran newsreader Martine Croxall.Speaking to GB News, the Conservative leader told Martin Daubney there is "clearly a small cabal of activists at the BBC who are holding sway over everybody else".FULL STORY HERE.
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You must be delighted that Ibrahim Qadr Sharif is back in jail
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because David Lammy blamed you for his release. Yes, it's complete nonsense
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They blame everybody else except themselves. They are in charge right now
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If someone was released last week by accident, it's their fault. It's not the fault of the people who were there two years ago
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And right now, what I actually want to see is this man deported
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We're spending too much money keeping foreign prisoners in our jails. Our party's policy now is just deport all foreign criminals, no ifs, no buts
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It's great that he's back behind bars, but there have been two simply wander out in this past week from Wandsworth
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and the numbers have doubled in the last year. Have you got any confidence that our streets are safe because of this Labour government
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No, no, I don't. There's clearly something going wrong at Wandsworth Prison
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But let's remember that these people have been accidentally released after David Lammy said he had instructed everybody, got a grip
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carried out a review, all sorts of things, because of the sex offender who caused all those problems in Epping not that long ago
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So they don't know how to fix anything. They are out of their depth. They're floundering
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And that is why I am not confident that the streets are safe, because I can look at all of the Labour cabinet, and it's all of them
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It not just Lammy It all of them They don know what they doing They haven got an agenda They are making a mess They need to get a grip Kemi Obeyed I like to get your opinion if I could on an alarming opinion poll that been released today
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Claiming that 84% of the British public believe that the country is more divided now than it ever has been before
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What's your take on that? I think it is, you know, an unbelievably sad state of affairs
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and all of us, politicians in particular, need to do something about it
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I mean, I'm here right now just outside the Imperial War Museum just doing some research around Remembrance Day
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Those are the sorts of things which I feel that we're forgetting as a country. I've met veterans now at VE Day, VJ Day
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who are telling me that they think people are forgetting what they fought for. I think there was even a clip today of a veteran saying
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that the country isn't any freer than what they were fighting for back then
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We've got a huge job to do. We've got to bring the country together. And right now, I believe the Conservative Party is the best party to do that
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I know we've made mistakes before, but this is something I really care about and which I'm working towards
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Kemi Bainock, the reports, authors, as you'd imagine, they blame Brexit. They blame the culture wars. They probably blame GB News if they could
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They blame anybody, actually, but the truth, perhaps the truth is something else
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It might be open borders, it might be a media and a political class that call
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anybody who disagrees racist. Would you actually say the problem has just been
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liberalism What I would say is that it is completely stupid to blame Brexit or to blame GB News These problems have been seeded a long time ago and it not just happening here so it can be Brexit
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The US is having similar problems. They didn't have Brexit. France is having similar problems
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What we are seeing is that as time goes by and the previous generations who understood what was fought for and lost are disappearing
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we are getting complacency. A lot of people don't understand what it took to get this country wealthy, what it took to get it working
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I want us to get Britain working again. You know, that's why I keep talking about welfare
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Six million people out of work, 5,000 new people each day signing on for health and sickness benefits
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That's more than twice what it was last year. This is completely crazy. We're not getting richer as a country
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It's making a lot of people frustrated. And when they're frustrated, they look for anything to blame
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There is a problem, as you said, with immigration. It was too high under the last Conservative government
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We took our eye off the ball, wasn't deliberate. I'm fixing that now. We've got much tougher policies
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We're leaving the ECHR. We've got a borders plan that is tougher and more coherent
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than anything that any other party is doing. We're doing the real work to win back people's trust
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because, my God, somebody's got to do it. Otherwise, those numbers will go from 84% to 100%
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We'll be in real trouble then. quickly ask you about the situation with Martine Crox who rolled her
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eyes when she was forced to use the phrase pregnant people. Women, that's
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a common sense opinion The BBC have chastise her for that Earlier this week you said the heads need to roll at the BBC What do you make of this latest false Yeah the heads have not rolled
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and I think it's time that they start rolling. It's completely stupid to reprimand Maxine
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for saying what is not just common sense, but the truth, it's biological fact
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There is quite clearly a small cabal of activists at the BBC who are holding sway over everybody else
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And if the director general cannot get a grip, look after his staff and deal with the people causing the problems, then yes, he should go
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If he can't solve it, then they should get somebody who can. Kimmy Bay, not leader of the Conservative Party
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And let's remember, this is not the first time. I was just going to say one thing
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This is not the first issue that the BBC has had. Remember the Panorama documentary with the fake news which they were creating
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This is part of a long running trend. They have the same thing with the Israel Gaza documentary that they did
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That's why I think this is a very serious issue. It's not a small matter. We need to take it seriously
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Thank you very much for your time today. I truly appreciate it. Thank you very much indeed for joining us on GB News
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In response to the news of Brahim Qadour Sharif's rearrest, the Deputy Prime Minister of that man, David Lammy
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he said this, We inherited a prison system in crisis. I'm appalled at the rate of releases in error this is causing
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I'm determined to grip this problem, and that is why I have ordered new tough release checks
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commissioned an independent investigation to systemic failures and begun overhauling archaic paper-based systems still used in some prisons
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