Kemi Badenoch has admitted she is still learning how to lead the Conservatives after seven months in the job, amid dire poll ratings for the party. The Tory leader on Friday said “it takes quite a while to learn how to do the job”.
It came a day after Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, promised she “will get better”, with the Conservatives tumbling in the polls and falling to fourth in a Scottish by-election on Thursday.