
Kemi Badenoch rebuffed calls for the Tories to merge with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in her first major speech this year.
The day after clashing with Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons, she also took a swipe at the Prime Minister and his “woman problem” with Chancellor Rachel Reeves who has faced criticism over her Budget, the soaring cost of Government borrrowing and fall in the Pound.