The debate between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick on The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots has been pulled, just over a week before it was set to air next Thursday. Naturally, there’s spin coming from both leadership camps as to why…
Guido hears Kemi dropped out having complained of host Harry Cole being “overly-critical” of her in previous interviews, while Team Kemi insist she was “happy to do” the debate, and that it was NewsUK who pulled it. BBC Question Time have offered to fill the slot, which Jenrick has already accepted. Wherever the debate, co-conspirators can be sure to expect some blue-on-blue attacks...
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”