It’s a busy day for the Tory leadership race in Westminster as the six candidates attempt to build momentum and MP support ahead of the first knockout round on Wednesday. Both Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly have this morning hosted their official launches, with contrasting pitches. While Cleverly set out policies he would support as leader, such as on taxation, Badenoch made a point of saying she would not get into policy details but instead focus on her vision. She said: ‘We can’t just keep having the same policy arguments from the last parliament. We lost. We are not in power’.
Badenoch was asked about reports that some of her colleagues find her abrasive
Badenoch, who is seen as the frontrunner, used her chosen venue of the Institute of Engineering and Technology to argue that her background as a systems engineer meant that she was the right woman for the job as she was used to finding answers to complex problems.
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