{"id":468980,"date":"2025-10-02T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:33:16","slug":"kemi-badenoch-mistakenly-says-ni-voted-in-favour-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468980\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Badenoch also said she was “deeply concerned” by Labour’s efforts to repeal and replace the last Conservative government’s Troubles Legacy Act<\/a>, legislation that was widely criticised in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

She defended her party’s stance, adding: “We went through a lot of pain to get to the point where we could deliver it.<\/p>\n

“When you speak to veterans a lot of people were affected, I think they’re worried that again and again, decisions are being made by politicians but they are the ones being held accountable for them.”<\/p>\n

The Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act was passed by the Conservatives and had been criticised for including a conditional amnesty.<\/p>\n

It was strongly opposed by many victims groups and all political parties in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Last month Labour set out a new plan<\/a>, agreed with the Irish government, that seeks to heal the rift created by the Conservatives’ legislation. <\/p>\n

She also denied she was “looking over her shoulder” at Nigel Farage, after recent defections from her party to Reform UK.<\/p>\n

“It’s not Labour, and definitely not Reform, only the Conservative Party is going to be good for all four nations of the UK,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The party’s under new leadership, I’m not here to talk about what the last Conservative government did, Labour is in power we need to scrutinise what Labour is doing.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badenoch also said she was “deeply concerned” by Labour’s efforts to repeal and replace the last Conservative government’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-468980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115305775507145214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}