Conservatives' Rightward Gamble: Badenoch Chases Reform's Shadow on Immigration

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives unveiled two headline-grabbing immigration moves: a pledge to ban foreigners from social housing (freeing up 230,000 homes for British families) and the appointment of Joshua Bonehill-Paine - a former neo-Nazi jailed for antisemitic harassment - as a party adviser on "tackling radicalisation." Health Secretary Yvette Cooper urged the Tories to "think again," calling the appointment "disturbing."

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