Kemi Badenoch: “Cuts are never easy but they are much easier to accept if what you are doing is fair.”

Labour will not have the "courage" to make the public spending cuts she argued were necessary to bring down debt and fund defence.

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.

Quite frankly, getting people off welfare is doing something for them... the best welfare is a well-paying job.

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.