UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has charged Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to adopt her party’s deportation bill and get tough in its implementation.

In a video posted on her X handle on Friday, the Tory leader warned that about two million immigrants would automatically claim “British Citizenship” by next year, asking Mr Starmer to adopt the Conservative Party’s deportation bill aimed at bringing immigration down.

“From next year, two million immigrants could automatically claim British citizenship. That’s nearly twice the population of Birmingham,” Ms Badenoch said. “We’ve introduced a deportation bill because we are committed to bringing immigration down.”

She had, on Tuesday, published a “deportation bill” aimed at bringing down immigration.

Ms Badenoch highlighted the benefits of the deportation bill as the deportation “of all foreign criminals, mandatory age checks, tougher visa rules, disabled the human rights act to immigration cases, make asylum support repayable and no permanent right to stay in the UK if you rely on benefits.”

She said, “Until that’s law, we won’t fix it. Labour should adopt it now. It’s time to get tough. That’s what the conservatives’ deportation bill delivers. Our country is a home, not a hotel.”

Ms Badenoch’s post has attracted responses from those who berated her for pushing against immigration, though she was a beneficiary.

“An immigrant with so much energy to stop immigration cracks me up so bad. You are a beneficiary,” An X user, @Ghislaintweet, said.

Another user, @SamW4Reform, tweeted, “What Kemi fails to mention is that these people arrived under the Tory government.”