The Tory leadership race is ramping up — and so is Kemi Badenoch’s anti-Reform rhetoric. The contender for the top job hasn’t held back on her views of Nigel Farage this week, and the back and forth looks set to continue…
The Reform leader has been rather uncomplimentary about Badenoch of late — tweeting furiously on the eve of the Conservative Party conference:
Kemi Badenoch has spent weeks positioning herself as tough on immigration. But in 2018 she campaigned in parliament to increase legal migration, and was the biggest champion for students bringing in dependents. I don’t believe a word that she says on anything.
Ouch.
In retaliation, during her leadership interview with GB News’s Christopher Hope on Monday, the wannabe leader blasted Farage’s right-wing rabble — remarking that the party’s leadership are not ‘real conservatives’ or ‘serious people’. Despite Jacob Rees-Mogg cautioning the Tory frontrunner that ‘it’s a mistake to dismiss [Farage]’, Badenoch has now launched a further attack on the Reform MP today.
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