Wes Streeting Compares Reform UK To Nazis Over Attack Ad

Wes Streeting has compared Reform UK to the Nazis over a controversial advert attacking Kemi Badenoch.

The former health secretary condemned a Reform social media post which suggested the Tory leader cared about black people, but not those who are white.

Streeting accused the right-wing party of spreading “propaganda that is reminiscent of the 1930s”.

The Reform ad showed a quote from 2020 in which Badenoch said “black lives do matter”, alongside a partial quote she gave this week in which she said “I don’t care about white lives matter”.

However, her full quote, which she gave in an interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, was: “I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters.”

On The News Agents podcast, Streeting said Reform had “sought to grossly and dangerously misrepresent” the Tory leader.

“She said ‘I don’t care about black lives matter, I don’t care about white lives matter, all lives matter’,” said Streeting. “She was really clear about that.

“Then an ad goes up that quotes what she said in 2022, ‘black lives do matter’, set against one part of what she said on breakfast television this week: ‘I don’t want to hear about white lives matter’.

“Those two sentences slapped on an ad with Kemi’s face and promoted across social media like wildfire.

“Why? Because they want people to believe that the black woman who leads the Conservative Party cares about black people, but doesn’t care about white lives.

“And that was dangerous, it was incendiary, and I don’t say this lightly, this is the type of propaganda that is reminiscent of the 1930s.

“And that is the choice for the country. You can have a politics that is decent, or you can have a politics that is about rage, that is about division, and seeks to foment and stir hatred to politically profit from it.

“It is dangerous, it is nationalistic and it has got to be beaten.”

Streeting said Reform leader Nigel Farage “is an English nationalist, and nationalism is a dangerous and potent political force”.

“I’m not saying Farage is a fascist, but I am saying he’s an English nationalist,” he added.

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