Kemi Badenoch skewers Keir Starmer over past support for foreign rapists and Shamima Begum in fiery PMQs

KEMI Badenoch today skewered squirming Sir Keir Starmer over his past support for foreign rapists and Shamima Begum.

At a fiery PMQs, the Tory leader demanded the PM apologise for signing a letter in 2020, begging ministers not to deport criminals with no British citizenship.

Before entering No10 Sir Keir also backed pleas by Isis bride Begum to be allowed to return to the UK.

But he U-turned on the position ahead of the general election.

In a packed out Commons Ms Badenoch blasted: "Four years ago, the Prime Minister signed a letter demanding that foreign criminals be allowed to stay in Britain.

"One of those criminals, Ernesto Elliott, had 17 convictions, including for knife crime. After his deportation was blocked, Elliott went on to murder someone. 

"Will he apologise for signing these letters?"

Ms Badenoch also slammed Sir Keir for previously defending, while a lawyer, the now-proscribed terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

And amid concerns Jihadi Begum could re-launch her bid to return to Britain, the Tory leader fumed: "He even said it was wrong when the Conservatives took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship.

“Now he has appointed her defence lawyer as his attorney general. 

The PM refused to apologise for backing foreign rapists and murderers, and hit back accusing the Tories of conducting a "one nation experiment in open borders".

Sir Keir added that Ms Badenoch's party completely lost control of immigration and oversaw record rises in both legal and small boat arrivals.

He said: “She presided over record numbers of asylum seekers in this country, a record number of lawful and irregular migrants, that is 14 years when they lost control of the borders.

“They set a cap for each of those 14 years. It wasn’t hard, it didn’t stop people coming and it got a record number. They should apologise for what they have done with their open borders policy.”