Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch

Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’Centrist ideas are no longer wanted in the Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch has said, arguing that one nation-type Tories or others who have qualms about her rightward direction for the party “need to get out of the way”.Making a speech in Westminster intended to set out her vision for her party after a spate of recent defections to Reform UK, the Conservative leader hit out at what she called the “tantrum” of Robert Jenrick and others. Continue reading...