Kemi Badenoch: “It is time to get serious. We cannot have our military inadequately funded at a time of growing threats.”

I’m not giving him a national platform, he is standing to be a councillor in Somerset … it is a local platform looking at parking, sorting out bins … I have much higher thresholds for what it takes to be a Conservative MP.

I want second chances for good people, for people who've their lessons for people who are showing that they know what they did was wrong.

I am extremely worried about antisemitism and what I feel is that if we can’t have the people who have previously been radicalised, who understand what went wrong and are part of the fight against antisemitism now, if we’re saying: ‘No…

Nigel Farage has called this by-election not to help you but to help himself.