Badenoch calls on people 'from cultures that don't respect women' to 'get out of our country'

Kemi Badenoch has said people from "cultures that do not respect women" need to get "out of our country".

The Conservative leader, reacting to the government's violence against women and girls strategy, said it is "not 11-year-old boys who are committing violence against women and girls".

"We need to get people who have come from cultures that don't respect women out of our country! Not all cultures are equally valid," she wrote on X.

She accused Labour's plan to teach secondary school pupils about misogyny and healthy relationships of being "a complete distraction".

Ms Badenoch called for all foreign criminals to be deported and more police on the UK's streets.

"Pretending a few extra lessons in school will fix this is complete nonsense. Labour need to stop watching Adolescence and get real," she said in reference to the TV series about a teenage boy arrested for murdering a schoolmate.

"But they can't, because they're too scared, weak and divided. They have no serious plan to tackle this problem."