FOUND: 3 - What They Never Told You

Badenoch hits back after Jeremy Clarkson's jibe about empty seats: 'This conference is buzzing'

Jeremy Clarkson earlier joked that ‘a lot of people have come dressed as seats’

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Badenoch warns Tories they will not be allowed back if they defect to Reform as she rules out coalition with Farage

The Conservative Party leader also said she would rather fight two general elections in quick succession than form a coalition with Nigel Farage’s party in a hung parliament

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Kemi Badenoch insists Tory conference ‘buzzing’ amid ridicule over empty seats

The party leader has insisted the Conservatives ‘will win’ the next general election.

Evening Standard · Oct 6

Badenoch accuses Braverman of ‘policing other people’s identity’ in Englishness row

The Reform UK MP sparked a row over racism when she suggested non-white people born in the UK could be British, but not English

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Kemi Badenoch disowns own party’s claim of building British ‘Iron Dome’

Conservative leader insists ‘we are not building the Iron Dome’ – despite the Tories’ own press release comparing it to Israel’s system

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Tories plan £10bn ‘British Iron Dome’ to protect UK – how would it work?

The Tories pledged to build Britain its own £10bn ‘Iron Dome’ missile interception system – but now even the party leader is backtracking

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Kemi Badenoch reveals final message Jeffrey Archer sent her on the day he died

Kemi Badenoch said Jeffrey Archer complimented her on her opening speech at the Conservative Party conference in his final message to her before his death at age 86.

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Voices: What Jeffrey Archer told me about injustice while in prison

TRIBUTE: Poverty, bankruptcy, prison, peerage, fame, fortune, disgrace and rehabilitation: Jeffrey Archer lived a life as dramatic and with as many twists as his novels. Geordie Greig remembers him.

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Kemi Badenoch admits it would be ‘difficult’ to reinstate triple lock if Andy Burnham scraps pension policy

Andy Burnham plans to drop the pensions triple lock’s automatic link with increases in average earnings from 2030

The Independent UK · Oct 6

Badenoch says it would be difficult to reinstate triple lock if Labour scraps it

Prime Minister Andy Burnham plans to drop the pensions triple lock’s automatic link with increases in average earnings from 2030.

Evening Standard · Oct 6