The Tory Leader has finally surged into first place. That Badenoch had already overtaken Jenrick before his departure will be quietly savoured in LOTO.
Jenrick only just tops the polls, with Stride and Badenoch swapping places with the pair coming second and third respectively. It comes amid an awkward row over a twitter post from the Tories’ chairman linking Reform UK’s badge to a Nazi one.
Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch warns the UK faces bankruptcy without benefit cuts
The Shadow Chancellor made a cautious start to the vast endeavour of bringing the Welfare State back under control.
I have long wanted to see a Conservative offer for young people and have advocated a £10,000 capital grant to help spread property ownership as council house sales and privatisation did.
The Tories are finally telling the electorate the truth, no other party admits: you can’t carry on spending and spending with no means to pay for it or you bankrupt an entire generation of our children crushed by a debt crisis the like of which we’ve not seen.
He says they are a “none of the above” populist party, and are “occupying a vacuum”.
Debt is ballooning – and who is going to pay for it, Mel Stride asks. You are.
Badenoch as leader has a net satisfaction rating (+18.1) around a quarter of Jenrick’s, and that still marks a vast improvement on her last league table number: 0.0.
Is it politically possible to take preventative action to put our public finances on a sustainable footing before a crisis hits? Or will it take a crisis before the public (and, therefore, our politicians) recognise what needs to be done?
He denies plans to stop foreign nationals receiving disability benefits is pandering to Reform.
Rayner’s claim that the Government’s mistakes are all the fault of the wicked Tories worked even less well than it does for Starmer.
“It’s taken too long, and the Prime Minister dithered on this,” he says.
It’s the right pitch to carve out a Conservative niche that says ‘you might not want to hear what I have to say, but you’ll always know it’s the truth’.
Mel Stride built his business from scratch. Andrew Griffith played a key role in transforming Sky into a household name. They, like every entrepreneur, understand you can’t tax your way to prosperity.