CONSERVATIVE Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said “what we were warning about with Labour has happened” in response to the Chancellor’s speech today.
Asked if she thought the public were listening to her, Badenoch told GB News: “Yes, I do. I do think so. We still have a long way to go. We need to earn back the trust of the public, but I think many people can now see that what we were warning about with Labour has happened.
“We need to show that we’ve got a credible alternative, a credible plan. That’s what I’ve been laying out. I mean, it’s absolutely extraordinary listening to Rachel Reeves this morning, and she’s just blaming everybody.
“It’s everybody else’s fault. It’s the last government, it’s Brexit, it’s – this is a woman who doesn’t have any answers, who cannot take responsibility. And what I’m trying to show her is that there is a way to get Britain working again.
“There is a way to deliver a stronger economy, stronger borders, not relying on immigration to do the jobs that people here won’t do. We can do this. She needs to take up that plan.”
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She said Reform UK lacked credible policies: “When I first became leader, I told people that we’re not rushing out with policies until we have fully worked our plans on how we’re going to deliver them. So the reason why I can announce that we’re going to abolish Stamp Duty, we’re going to scrap business rates for the high street or lose more businesses, is because we have found the savings, £47 billion of savings.
“The difference between us and Reform is that Reform make the promises first and then think about it later, that the last election, they had a contract with the country, and they have junked every single thing. That’s not going to happen with me.
“I’m the new leader of the party. What I say sticks. I’m not going to say something and then change my mind later on, because I haven’t worked through the plans. £47 billion of savings will deliver a lot of those things, which we want to see, paying down the deficit and investing in those kind of tax cuts, like business rates, like Stamp Duty, getting rid of those, that will stimulate the economy, that will work.”
On the claim that BBC’s Panorama programme misled the public by editing a speech by Donald Trump, she said: “It’s absolutely shocking. That is fake news, actually putting different things together to try and make something look different from what it actually was.
“I do think heads should roll. Whoever it was who did that should be sacked. That’s what Tim Davie should be doing, identifying who put out misinformation and sacking them.
“The public needs to be able to trust our public broadcaster. Everyone who’s watching the BBC, everyone with a TV, is paying a license. We are paying their money. They should not be telling us things that are not true.
“They have all these outfits, BBC Verify, verifying other people’s claims. What are they doing about their own claims?
“But you’re quite right to bring up the Gaza documentary, among others as an example. This is a corporation that needs to hold itself to the highest standards, and that means that when we see people doing the wrong thing, they should be punished, they should be sacked.”