Tories will tell difficult truths, Badenoch to say in bid to regain voter trust
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The Tories will tell the British people the truth “even when it’s difficult to hear”, Kemi Badenoch will pledge in a major speech focused on regaining voters’ trust. The Conservative leader is also expected to criticise the Labour Party for having announced “mad and bad ideas on snatching winter fuel and taxing family farms”, which Mrs Badenoch insists the Tories rejected “time and time again” in government.
In her first major speech of 2025, Mrs Badenoch will on Thursday signal that she will continue to be outspoken in her language as she leads the Conservative party, just days after she came under fire for blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis.
After stressing the Conservatives are under new leadership, Ms Badenoch will say: “For the next four years and beyond we are going to be telling the British people the truth, even when it’s difficult to hear. “The truth about the mistakes we made, the truth about the problems we face, and the truth about the actions we must take to get ourselves out of this mess.”.
Speaking to GB News earlier this week, the Tory leader said it was important to examine the backgrounds of those implicated in the grooming gangs scandal, adding they were “people with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in”.
