Kemi Badenoch: “Today Conservatives voted to stop rapists, paedophiles and child groomers being released from prison early.”

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

You have small extremist parties dictating policy, the tail effectively wagging the dog, and that’s why I’m very much against creating a proportional representation system in our country.

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.

His diagnosis is completely wrong," she told the House of Commons. "His theory of growth is completely wrong. He thinks that if Government spends more money, we will all get richer. That is not how this works."