Kemi Badenoch: “Labour will not have the "courage" to make the public spending cuts she argued were necessary to bring down debt and…”

The difference is, as a party leader, I trust the people who are in our party. We have very high standards. Reform and others don't, which is why they have this scandal unfolding with people saying all sorts of appalling things.

The country "could see those sorts of scenes" if concerns were ignored.

What I trust is that the people who we have as councillors are good people who can make a judgement call on what kind of people they are working with.

Britain cannot afford to do as little as possible.