Tory leader Kemi Badenoch insisted defectors who left her party for Nigel Farage’s Reform are “some of the most dishonest people” she has met, as she ruled out allowing them to come back to the Conservatives.
Mrs Badenoch again ruled out doing a deal with Reform UK after the next general election, saying she would rather go back to the country and have another election if there was a hung parliament than have a “monstrous Reform/Conservative hybrid” government at Westminster.
