Badenoch says local elections will be ‘very difficult’ for Tories
Q: Nigel Farage says you are lazy, and that you only work hard for a few hours in the afternoon.
Badenoch asks how he would know. She says he has never met her. He throws abuse at politicians to get attention, she says.
Q: Since you became leader, the Tory poll ratings have gone down. Are you failing?
Badenoch says polls are just a snapshot. She says it took the opposition 14 years to get back to power last time a party lost office, 13 years the time before that, and 18 years the time before that. She has just been in office for five months, she says.
But she says the local elections will be hard for Tories.
We’re going to have very difficult local elections. These local elections are not going to be fun for the Conservative party, because the last time we fought them was in 2021 with Boris Johnson, when there was a vaccine bounce just after Covid. So we are going to have a tough time.
