Mrs Badenoch said Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, had refused to condemn Dawn Butler, a Labour candidate who tweeted that she agreed with the actor.
“I keep telling people that it’s not just Keir Starmer that you’re going to get when you get Labour, you’re going to have all these MPs with very, very bad politics, really dangerous stuff, wishing another MP doesn’t exist,” she said.
“And if you remember how they reacted when there were comments which emerged several years later that have been made in private about Diane Abbott [by Frank Hester, a Tory donor], we didn’t stop hearing about it for well over a week.
“So it’s one rule for them and another rule for everyone else. They don’t really care about racism, they just care about their own people.”
Mrs Badenoch again did not rule out standing to be Tory leader after the election, saying that future the party “needs to be one that occupies the whole of the centre-Right, not just the centre, because that’s where we’re losing to Reform”.