Kemi Badenoch: “They hadn’t done the actual work of putting together a practical plan.”

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 to be very clear – and I think people can look at me and know that I’m not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.

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

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