Kemi Badenoch: “It is because we are not racist, because we care so much about equality that we have overcorrected and actually brought…”

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.

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

I do feel the pull to Scotland because I see it as a place that should be more conservative than it is.

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