Kemi Badenoch: “While Farage threw a hissy fit, Conservatives were protecting women and girls.”

When the real choice comes, the Conservatives will be there and I hope we can earn your support.

Nigel Farage has called this by-election not to help you but to help himself.

It’s absolutely essential. If this decision had been made earlier in the summer, we could have had gas from Jackdaw in people’s homes by this winter, by Christmas.

I will put forward a serious candidate who understands that representing Clacton is a job, someone who turns up, listens, holds meetings and works for the people who live here.