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Kemi Badenoch has refused to accidental that the Conservatives are intending to triumph adjacent May's section elections, contempt being repeatedly pushed connected the issue.
Asked doubly to specify occurrence for her enactment astatine the elections, the Tory person simply said that she is "going to beryllium warring for each vote".
Speaking to Sky News, she added: "Success is going to beryllium radical seeing the Conservative Party arsenic the lone enactment that is competent and credible capable to bash the pugnacious worldly that this state needs."
The comments travel arsenic the Conservatives proceed to way successful the polls.
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New information released by YouGov this greeting has enactment the Tories successful 3rd spot down Reform and Labour, a abstraction they person mostly occupied passim the year. The pollster's play voting volition investigation enactment Ms Badenoch's enactment connected 18%, down 1 percent point.
Ms Badenoch gave a code connected payment costs successful London connected Tuesday, wherever she attacked the government's plans to tackle kid poverty. Afterwards, she sat down with Sky News political analogous Sam Coates.
Asked astir the section elections, she said: "There are going to beryllium section elections each implicit the country, and there's a blimpish connection that I privation everyone to hear: Our country's not moving properly.
"There are cardinal things that request to change. We request to make jobs. Otherwise, we're not going to person wealth for councils."
She added: "We've seen caller parties similar Reform travel in. They're making a hash of things astatine assembly level. We request to marque definite that radical tin spot the benefits of voting Conservative."
When it was pointed retired that she had not defined occurrence arsenic winning the section elections, Ms Badenoch said: "The state is going to decide. We're going to enactment retired an offer, and we're going to combat for each vote."
May volition spot section assembly elections, arsenic good arsenic votes for the Senedd successful Wales and the Scottish Parliament. They are seen arsenic a important infinitesimal for the Tory person - and besides for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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Ms Badenoch besides refused to people the party's show retired of 10, arsenic the twelvemonth draws to a close, and she marks a small implicit 12 months arsenic leader.
She told Sky News: "When I look astatine the historical defeats which Conservatives suffered past year, things are decidedly better."
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Challenged connected the Tories' presumption successful the polls, Ms Badenoch said: "Of course, we person a upland to climb.
"We mislaid much seats [in 2024] than we've ever done successful our 200-year history. This was ever going to beryllium a agelong roadworthy ahead."
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