Kemi Badenoch

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

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

How do I work with people like that when I am making carefully curated plans and taking a systems-based approach?

These are people who left us when we were at our lowest, many of them the people who caused the problems in the first place and then ran away and pretended they had nothing to do with it. Why should we have them back?

Reform has people who left the Conservative party, some of the most dishonest people I have ever met in my entire life.

You have small extremist parties dictating policy, the tail effectively wagging the dog, and that’s why I’m very much against creating a proportional representation system in our country.

Israel has a political issue with the elections coming up, and this is what happens in systems with proportional representation.

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.

Britain needs a serious plan to deal with climate change. Seriousness means looking at results, not simply setting targets and congratulating ourselves afterwards.

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

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.

When the proper process has run its course and there is a genuine contest, we will be there.

Mr Farage wants the people of Clacton to settle his problems for him.

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

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.

I don’t see how I could possibly have people like that in some form of coalition.

Reform are a woke party – and I know a lot of people don’t understand, the word woke is used to mean many things.

Climate change is real. The net zero plans are not. They are a political fiction.

If we are going to stop extremism and antisemitism we are going to need help from those people who were part of the problem, but have now changed and are being part of the solution.

While I am sad that Joshua feels he won't be given the space to explain his position and represent his community, I am glad he is going to work with me and the party on tackling radicalisation.

The Conservative Party believes in second chances.

The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions.

I have much higher thresholds for what it takes to be a Conservative MP.

I am extremely worried about antisemitism and what I feel is that if we can’t have the people who have previously been radicalised, who understand what went wrong and are part of the fight against antisemitism now, if we’re saying: ‘No…

This man is showing that he’s more than contrite, he’s actually working training Prevent officers, speaking in universities and schools.