Badenoch and Beth Rigby have taken their argument from this morning onto social media. Kemi accused the Sky News pol ed of parroting a briefing from Reeves’ team at her press conference this morning…
Rigby expressed surprise that Badenoch took five minutes in a testy interview to “acknowledge some responsibility” for the state of the economy under Reeves:
Badenoch wants to lay blame ALL ec woes on Reeves. It takes 5 mins of this i/v for Badenoch to acknowledge some of Tories’ responsibility. It matters cos 2/3 of voters still don’t trust Tories on economy & economy is at heart of their rebuild > 6 mins here https://t.co/yjuSGR7mOd https://t.co/LdCTVgdFtD
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) November 4, 2025
Badenoch came back to tell Rigby to hold Reeves to account instead:
🚨Newsflash: we’re not in government anymore. It’s time to start holding the people in charge to account.
Instead of offering tissues at every Labour sob story, we need to point out the mistakes of the last budget so they’re not repeated.
Reeves promised not to come back for… https://t.co/bck750SZyT
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) November 4, 2025
After the Chancellor’s dull here-comes-the-manifesto-breach press conference this morning Rigby was the only one with the heart to run defensive lines for Reeves. It’s lonely at the top…
Starmer insisted his chances of leading the country are not diminishing. He told reporters during his visit to McLaren:
“No, no, no. I’m very happy to be out and about this morning, not talking about the internal politics of the Labour party, but talking about young people.”