Kemi Badenoch: “Burnham is clearly desperate to be in charge, but the prime minister is not a ceremonial position.”

Yes, he is somebody who had been previously convicted but he is someone who has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.

The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions.

How do I work with people like that when I am making carefully curated plans and taking a systems-based approach?

I want to be very clear – and I think people can look at me and know that I’m not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.