Badenoch Backs Elba on James Bond, Urges More Stop-and-Search for Black Boys
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Updated · spectator.com · Jun 9
Badenoch Backs Elba on James Bond, Urges More Stop-and-Search for Black Boys
3 articles · Updated · spectator.com · Jun 9
Summary
Kemi Badenoch used a Westminster speech on identity politics to endorse Idris Elba’s view that the next James Bond should not be made “woke.”
Elba had told GQ he was flattered by Bond speculation but said the character “was written how he was written for a reason” and should not be recast to fit identity politics.
Badenoch then shifted to crime policy, arguing more black boys should face stop-and-search because “more knives are found” and knife-carrying rates are higher.
She tied that stance to a broader attack on equality rules, blaming the Equality Act and hate-crime guidance for distorting policing and calling for the Public Sector Equality Duty to be scrapped.
The intervention sharpened her break with Keir Starmer’s response to the Henry Nowak case and signaled a harder Conservative line against what she called identity-politics “rubbish.”