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Badenoch accuses Reform UK of ‘left-wing fantasy’ politics and says the Conservative Party is ‘moving to the right every day’ under his leadership
In his speech this morning Kemi Badenoch Reformation will also accuse Britain of encouraging “leftist fantasy” politics.
According to previously released quotes, he will say:
Labor believes the solution is more state control.
Reform believes the same thing, they just want it their hold the handles instead.
Conservatives don’t believe in more control. We believe in you.
We’ll do our job and we’ll get out of the way so you can do yours.
We have done the necessary work to finally deal with illegal immigration and have decided to leave the ECHR.
We did the study and said we would repeal the Climate Change Act so we could lower energy bills and stop deindustrialization.
We’ve done the work and we have a fully funded plan to abolish stamp duty so we can unlock the housing market and make homeownership a reality for young people again.
We’ve done the study and identified plans to save £23bn on welfare so we can close the budget deficit, cut taxes and get Britain back up and running.
My Conservative party has moved to the right every day since I became leader.
What did the Reformation do at that time?
An unfunded plan to remove the two-child allowance limit…
An unworkable plan to nationalize British steel.
This is a leftist fantasy.
The Conservatives are proudly the party of the right. The only party of the right.
Starmer came to Beijing
Keir Starmer He landed in Beijing.
‘It’s not 2016 anymore’ – Badenoch criticizes moderate Conservatism group in speech condemning ‘psychodrama’
Kemi Badenoch Today he will make a speech condemning the “PSYCHODRAM” in Labor and Reform UK. The all-caps emphasis is taken from the preview text sent out by CCHQ overnight. It sounds like a personal Badenoch touch and is also reminiscent of the tone adopted by Donald Trump in his social media posts.
Here is the key quote.
At a time when NATO is under threat.
At a time when the Conservatives are simultaneously working day and night in parliament to find ways to stop the government from handing over British territory in the Chagos Islands and press Labor to save Britain’s pubs…
What were the other parties doing?
PSYCHODRAM!
Labor… is making plans to bring a new leadership candidate to Westminster to challenge Keir Starmer.
Meanwhile, Reform UK dressed up an asylum rally as a veterans’ event. Shameful.
Neither of them are serious and the public is tired of this style of politics.
So who will solve the problems of this country?
Is it the people who kneel down every day and call the government to account for its many failures?
Or is it just the party that held a press conference while announcing a new separation?
Critics will say the Conservatives are not holding back when it comes to meeting Westminster’s demand for psychodrama. Following Suella Braverman’s defection to Reform UK, Tory HQ even issued a statement (which it later retracted) speculating about the former MP’s psychological health. The party said the letter was sent in error, but Braverman said it echoed something Badenoch had said about him in the past.
While Badenoch will claim the Conservatives are the only party “serious” about policy, he will also use his speech for a bit of internal factional warfare – blasting Prosper, the new group founded by Ruth Davidson and Andy Street that advocates “moderate” Conservatism.
In the summary sent overnight, Badenoch does not name Prosper. But he clearly refers to them and says:
There’s another group of people who think that if we just act like nothing bad happened, everything will be fine…
… as long as we say nice things and don’t talk about immigration.
This is my message them.
We are talking about the future, not the past.
We’re not trying to recreate 2006 and it’s not 2016 anymore.
We are not fighting these wars again. The year is 2026 and the world has changed.
This is about the future. I’m building a Conservative party for the next decade and the next generation.
Starmer claims only Labor can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton by-election
Good morning. Keir Starmer He will land in China shortly and has been speaking to reporters during his flight. As always, when a Prime Minister goes abroad, he wants to focus on foreign issues, but domestic politics is never forgotten.
Like Pippa Crerar According to reports, Starmer was asked about the Gorton and Denton by-election; Reform UK yesterday selected UK News presenter and far-right commentator Matt Goodwin as its candidate. star player He claimed that only Labor could defeat Reform in his constituency. He said:
There is only one party that will stop reform and that is Labour. We can already see what the by-election will be about; Labor values of covering the cost of living have a strong record in this constituency that shows what we have already done against Reform.
You can see from their candidates what kind of politics they will bring to this constituency: the politics of division, the politics of poisonous division, the politics of tearing people apart. It’s not a constituency’s issue, it’s not Manchester’s issue, so it’s a direct fight between Labor and Reform.
The Greens won’t agree to this. And The bookmakers don’t do this either.
According to Pippa, Starmer said that he will “raise issues that need to be updated” on human rights with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at their meeting tomorrow.
Here is the agenda of the day.
Around 9.30am (UK time): Keir Starmer came to Beijing. He will be speaking to a business delegation (around 11.45am UK time).
10am: Kemi Badenoch makes a speech criticizing the ‘psychodrama’ of both Reformation England and the Labor Party.
Afternoon: Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy takes PMQs on Starmer’s behalf.
13.30: Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, gives a speech on international relations in Edinburgh.
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