Local elections will be ‘quite difficult’ for Tories, says Badenoch
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This year’s local elections will be “quite difficult” for the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch has said. The Conservative leader has predicted that this year’s vote will be “very bad” for the Tories compared to votes four years ago. The comments were made in an interview with The Times in which Mrs Badenoch also discussed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, and her belief that the European Convention on Human Rights is not “the only problem” when it comes to immigration policy.
“These local elections will be quite difficult for us as a party,” she told the newspaper. “If you compare to where we were four years ago it was a record high. So compared with that it will be very bad.”. The Conservatives lost seats to Labour, Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats at last year’s general election.
Nigel Farage’s Reform have improved their position in the polls since then. She suggested that Reform is “a party that is out to destroy” the Conservatives, and on whether she is worried about the rise of Reform, Mrs Badenoch told the newspaper: “We are in a very, very competitive political environment.
“What those numbers show me is that the Conservative Party has a job to do in making sure that people understand what we stand for and that our values are the values of the British people.”. Mrs Badenoch has made clear that she will take time before making any major policy announcements.
