The Latest Breaking News from Kemi Badenoch

Reform UK aiming for reverse takeover of Tories, Farage says

Leader says electoral deal now would cost his party votes but he aims to continue winning over defectors

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Spoilt for choice, Conspiracy Kemi grabs wrong end of every stick

After the budget there should have been easy wins for Badenoch at PMQs but the Tory leader just can’t help herself

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Chinese mega embassy in London could bring security advantages, Downing Street claims

No 10 has sought to highlight the ‘benefits’ of consolidating the seven Chinese sites currently dotted around the capital in the mega embassy

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2025

‘Failed former Tory MPs’ who join Reform unlikely to be selected as candidates, Zia Yusuf says – as it happened

This week it was announced that three more former Tory MPs have gone over to Nigel Farage’s party

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Farage tells donors he expects Reform to do election deal with Tories – report

One donor tells FT that Reform leader described an agreement as ‘inevitable’, despite denials from both sides

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but seem to yearn for a world that has disappeared, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Keir Starmer to face PMQs amid continued Budget questions

The OECD has warned tax hikes and reduced spending will act as a ‘headwind’ to the UK economy over the next two years.

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2025

Reform and Tories insist there is no plan for merger before next election

Prominent ex-Tory figures have flocked to Reform.

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2025

Is David Lammy persuaded by his own jury trials proposal? Not sure. But he said it anyway

Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in society. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025