A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly \u201cculturally coherent\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has been urged to condemn the comments by Katie Lam, a Home Office shadow minister and a whip for the party. Lam was previously a special adviser to Boris Johnson and is often described as a rising star of the new intake<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lam told the Sunday Times she believed large numbers of people with legal status in the UK would need to have their right to stay revoked and should \u201cgo home\u201d.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cThere are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn\u2019t have been able to do so. It\u2019s not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn\u2019t have been able to do so.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n In a letter to Badenoch, the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey<\/a>, called it \u201cdeeply concerning and unpatriotic. People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to \u2018go home\u2019. This is their home.\u201d<\/p>\n Ed Davey said the remarks made by Katie Lam were \u2018deeply concerning\u2019. Photograph: Jonathan Brady\/PA<\/p>\n Davey said that Lam\u2019s suggestion of removing thousands of people who were in the UK legally \u201cshows just how far your party has moved away from the fundamental values of decency, tolerance and respect for the rule of law that the vast majority of people in our country hold dear\u201d.<\/p>\n