Kemi Badenoch last night launched a ‘reset’ of the Conservative Party to get it battle-ready for an election as soon as next year.
In a direct echo of Margaret Thatcher‘s approach in the 1970s, Mrs Badenoch published a major document setting out plans for a return to ‘common sense’ Tory values.
And she mocked Andy Burnham‘s extraordinary claim that defence spending would not come at a cost to those on benefits, telling the Prime Minister there was ‘no social security without national security’.
It came as the Conservatives launched a policy blitz at the start of their conference in Birmingham, including building 50,000
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