Kemi Badenoch: “Everyone starts from scratch. Everyone has to earn their place.”

If we get a hung parliament and people see that the parties can’t form a government, you have another election.

The Conservative Party believes in second chances.

What I will criticise Andy Burnham for is not coming to parliament after becoming prime minister.

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.