Kemi Badenoch has hit out at Keir Starmer for politicising the Netflix film "Adolescence". Ms Badenoch told GB News: The prime minister should not be building policy on fiction. He should be building policy on reality".
GB News asked Kemi Badenoch: "Have you watched Adolescence yet? The PM had a meet meeting yesterday around this Netflix show. Do you think white boys are being wrongly singled out here?"
Ms Badenoch replied:
Well, I think adolescence is a fictional story. It's based on a real story, but my understanding is that the boy who committed that crime was not white.
So people can do whatever they like in fiction. The prime minister should not be building policy on fiction. Should be building policy on reality. What is the reality? These phones are disrupting schools, and not enough schools have effective bans.
When I asked him last week about having a ban at PMQs, what did he say? That it wasn't necessary. He believes it's a gimmick. So he's not doing the things that we need to do in reality. He's watching Netflix and having roundtables about a Netflix documentary.
It's a gimmick. He thinks that he's going to touch the people of this country. They're all watching Netflix, so I'll just talk about the thing they're watching on TV. No. He needs to talk about what's happening in their lives right now.
That's the bills that are going up. The jobs tax that's gonna kill jobs, lower wages, and let's get phones out of schools as well because it's distracting our young people.
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