Kemi Badenoch claims that Tory party infighting has ended and leadership is going well – UK politics live
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Good morning. The Radio 4 news is leading on a story about an interview with Kemi Badenoch in which she announces that she has not got anything to announce. Welcome to the Christmas holiday news desert. To be fair, there is some proper news happening relating to domestic politics this morning. Revised growth figures are out and they say the UK had no growth at all in the third quarter of the year (July, August and September). As Richard Partington reports, for a new government that has made boosting growth a priority, this is a setback.
The growth figures came out after the release overnight of a report from the CBI saying firms are predicting a sharp fall in business activity in the new year. Some of the rightwing papers, like the Daily Mail, have splashed on the CBI story. MAIL: Economy is heading for ‘worst of all worlds’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/l5pCtMPMWW.
All of which is quite a big deal – and Graeme Wearden is covering it in detail on his business live blog. It also presents an opportunity for the Conservative party. But, in an interview with Amol Rajan from the Today programme, recorded in advance but released this morning, Kemi Badenoch defended the fact that the opposition does not have a fully worked-out policy programme. She said the next election was probably a long way off, and she said it was important to take time working out a platform.
