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Kemi Badenoch tries to brush off the string of defections, which were revealed while she conducted a series of broadcaster interviews on Tuesday

Every candidate for high office, from the freshest of faces to grizzled incumbents, hopes to pitch themselves as the candidate of change. Rishi Sunak is no different. To that end, the Prime Minister used his Conservative Party Conference speech to declare himself the man to “fundamentally change our country”.

As landing zones go, it was a tight one. In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Liz Truss needed to try to restore discipline to her Cabinet, instil confidence in the markets and reassure an electorate buffeted by rising prices and mortgage hikes.

Delegates being kept inside "for their own safety"

Richard Walker told a fringe discussion at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham that Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget did not do enough to help those on low incomes, and called for the £20 Universal Credit uplift to be reinstated