Kemi Badenoch was asked whether she should be doing more to win back Tory defectors. The audience – packed with Tories – shouted “No!”…
Badenoch went on to say that “we are moving on from defections” and the “psychodrama”. Meanwhile a YouGov poll today shows 22% of 2024 Tory voters say recent defections have made them view Reform more positively. You’d think Kemi would want to encourage defectors to come back…
Speaking to Matt Chorley on BBC 5 Live, Shabana Mahmood was asked what the naughtiest thing she has ever done is:
“I think I took a drag on a cigarette when I was a teenager, when I shouldn’t have done, but it did trigger an asthma attack. And so I figured that was God telling me, don’t smoke.”