Kemi Badenoch: “I think Nigel Farage might be looking like the establishment, and Count Binface may be the people.”

‘What I want is a Conservative government, not a monstrous Reform-Conservative hybrid, which will actually put as many people off as it gains.’

Kemi is changing the way the Conservative party approaches economic policy and creating a new economic leadership team for the next phase, focused on growth, higher living standards and fiscal credibility.

I want us to unite the country. It is not about uniting the right, it is about uniting 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.