Kemi Badenoch: “Reform has people who left the Conservative party, some of the most dishonest people I have ever met in my entire life.”

I see it as a place that feels like it gets ignored by Westminster.

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…

Mr Farage wants the people of Clacton to settle his problems for him.

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.