"The Tories face an existential challenge from Reform UK. While Badenoch has tried to differentiate the party from Reform UK, mainly be stressing her commitment to fiscal responsibility and cutting public spending, her main rival, Robert Jenrick, seems to be adopting the opposite approach essentially adopting Nigel Farage's outlook wholesale. In her speech today Badenoch will announce a new economic golden rule that she will present as evidence that a Conservative government would bring down government borrowing."
"But what is much more interesting is how Badenoch is, in many areas, trampling all over Cameron-era Conservatism. We've seen this in the decision to proposing leaving the ECHR, repealing the Climate Change Act (essentially Cameron legislation, passed by Gordon Brown, as Michael Heseltine pointed out yesterday) and slashing aid spending to its lowest level on record. And in her speech today Badenoch will bury another Cameron policy."
Kemi Badenoch delivers her first main Conservative conference speech as party leader against a backdrop of internal rivalry and an electoral threat from Reform UK. Badenoch stresses fiscal responsibility and proposes a new economic golden rule designed to reduce government borrowing. Policy moves include proposing to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repealing the Climate Change Act, cutting international aid to record lows, and reintroducing a cap on university admissions expected to cut roughly 100,000 places per year. The party frames the university cap as a response to poor job outcomes and high graduate debt for many.
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