Antisemitic immigrants will be deported from the UK if the Conservative Party is re-elected, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp announced at the Tory Conference 2025 on Sunday.
Both Philp and party leader Kemi Badenoch spoke strongly of their support for the British Jewish community and their zero-tolerance policy for antisemitism, racism, and extremism.
“If a foreign citizen expresses racial hatred, including antisemitism, or supports extremism or terrorism, I’ll tell you this as shadow home secretary, I’ll deport them,” said Philp.
The conference took place in the city of Manchester, the location of the antisemitic terror attack outside a synagogue on Yom Kippur last week. Philp acknowledged this in his speech and told the audience that his party has a “renewed resolve to fight the ancient evil of antisemitism wherever it is found.”
Badenoch, who visited the site of the attack on Saturday, said the strength of Manchester’s Jewish community is “humbling.”
Anti-Israel protests
She expressed antipathy towards pro-Palestine marches in the UK, saying they have turned into “carnivals of hatred directed at the Jewish homeland”.
“You hear it in ‘from the river to the sea’, as if the homes and the lives of millions of Jewish people should be erased,” she said. “You hear it in ‘globalise the intifada’, which means nothing at all if it doesn’t mean targeting Jewish people for violence.”
“We must now draw a line and say that in Britain you can think what you like, and within the bounds of the law you can say what you like, but you have no right to turn our streets into the theatres of intimidation, and we will not let you do so anymore.”
Badenoch told British Jews, “You are part of the fabric of Britain and you always will be.”
Much of the focus of the conference was on stronger borders, and Philp went on to reveal plans to deport 150,000 illegal immigrants and foreign criminals each year.
“We will also deport all foreign criminals, not some, all. There are currently about 20,000 serious foreign criminals roaming our streets who should have been deported already.
“They have gone on to commit, between them, a further 10,000 offences, including murder and rape,” he added.
However, when pressed on the deportation plans by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Badenoch was unable to say where the 150,000 migrants would be sent.
