Kemi Badenoch has mocked her former Conservative Party colleagues who recently defected to Reform, accusing them of lashing out over failed leadership ambitions and having a “tantrum dressed up as politics”.
In a speech days after her party lost yet another former cabinet minister to Nigel Farage’s party, the Tory leader dubbed both Reform UK and Labour as “drama queens” as she sought to reframe the Conservatives as a party of “serious people”.
