Kemi Badenoch: “top-to-bottom reform”

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

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 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…

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