Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’
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"We have already quoted Keir Starmer’s response to Kemi Badenoch’s election as Conservative leader. (See
11.44am.) The Conservatives will only win back power by regaining votes from the Liberal Democrats and from Reform UK, but the leaders of those two parties have put out quite different statements about Badenoch’s victory.
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, congratulated her. He said:
I’d like to congratulate Kemi Badenoch on being elected leader of the Conservative party. The election of the first Black leader of a major UK political party is a historic moment for the country.
Voters across the country believe her party is too divided, out-of-touch and unable to accept Conservative failures over the past years.
The Liberal Democrats will continue to offer the best opposition to the government and fight for a fair deal for Britain.
But
Richard Tice, the Reform UK deputy leader, said:
Kemi Badenoch is another in a long line of Tory politicians who say one thing and do another.
Kemi Badenoch was front and centre of a government that failed Britain.
She said nothing while Rishi Sunak hit hard-working people with record immigration, the small boats crisis, the highest taxes for 60 years, record NHS waiting lists and sky-high crime.
Instead of standing up for Britain whilst in government, she stood up for her own career prospects and chauffeur-driven cars.
She has failed the British public before and she will fail them again as leader of the Conservative party."
