Up pops Katie Lam to outbigot Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale It’s hard to keep up with everyone the Tory MP tipped as a future party leader hates The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025
Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2025
Robert Jenrick accused of fomenting division by backing burka ban The Tory shadow justice secretary said there was ‘a strong argument’ for a ban on the face coverings. Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
Rising star Tory MP under fire over ‘deport legal migrants’ comment Katie Lam drew cross-party criticism after suggesting large numbers of people with legal status in Britain should ‘go home’ The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2025
It’s Badenoch’s Tory show, 2025: like Britain seeing an old flame and remembering why we blocked their number The conference offers a flailing leader, Trumpite policies and rivals jockeying for position. It is comical, but also worrying, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2025
Next Tory leader? Rise of Katie Lam reflects rightward shift on migration Shadow Home Office minister who tweets in language of hard-right populism is talked of as future of conservatism The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025
OPINION - Just what exactly is Labour's problem with investigating grooming gangs properly? Well, whaddya know? It turns out that the five investigations into the child grooming gangs scandal will go ahead after all. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said in an LBC interview that they are happening as she originally announced in January and to state otherwise was “party political misinformation”.… Evening Standard · Apr 10, 2025
Beaten, marooned, demoralised – and yet still the right clings to Thatcher. I’ve seen them: they’re so lost I went to a conference of rightwing pollsters and party grandees. It seems their only way forward is to look back, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024