Kemi Badenoch has condemned Bonnie Blue‘s ‘disgusting’ stunts and lashed out at Reform UK for welcoming the porn star’s endorsement.
The Tory leader pointed to her party’s beliefs in ‘standards’, ‘family’ and ‘morality’ as she explained why she would snub Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger.
The 26-year-old recently gave her backing to Nigel Farage and hailed Reform’s ‘sensible positions’ on immigration and inheritance tax.
At a press conference this week, Reform MP Danny Kruger welcomed Blue’s endorsement and said his party wanted ‘all the support we can get’.
He added that Reform would not be ‘judgmental’ about those who want to vote for them, saying: ‘We’re not going to be fussy.’
But Mrs Badenoch, appearing on a radio phone-in show, said she would not be so welcoming of Blue’s support if the online content creator had backed the Tories.
Referring to Blue’s claim to have bedded 1,000 men in one day, she told LBC: ‘What Bonnie Blue has been doing goes well beyond just being a Page 3 girl or a porn star.
‘I actually found a lot of the activities, sleeping with a hundred people in a day or a 1,000 people. I personally found it quite disgusting.’
Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, recently gave her backing to Nigel Farage and hailed Reform’s ‘sensible positions’ on immigration and inheritance tax
Kemi Badenoch, appearing on a radio phone-in show, said she would not be so welcoming of Blue’s support if the online content creator had backed the Tories
Mrs Badenoch added: ‘I don’t think that we should treat women’s bodies like that. Of course, people have autonomy over their bodies.
‘But as a Conservative Party, we do believe in standards, we believe in family, we do believe in morality – something we haven’t been talking about for a long time.’
Asked whether Blue’s activities were an example of freedom of expression, the Tory leader replied: ‘Freedom of expression is fine.
‘But we don’t agree with every expression. We believe in conservative expressions. She can do whatever she likes as long as it’s legal.
‘But sometimes it doesn’t have to be illegal for you to be able to say it’s wrong.’
Mrs Badenoch claimed Reform had welcomed Blue’s endorsement because ‘they don’t care’.
‘They don’t care about standards, they don’t care who they take, all they really care about is trying to destroy the Conservative Party,’ she continued.
‘They’re not even that interested in Labour. They spend most of their time talking about us. But we stand for something.
‘We stand for personal responsibility. Freedom, yes, including freedom of expression but that doesn’t mean we agree with every single thing that’s being said.’
