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Badenoch delivers speech on final day of Tory conference – UK politics live
UK NewsPolitics•October 7, 2026 at 11:24 AMNational

Badenoch delivers speech on final day of Tory conference – UK politics live

By Andrew Sparrow•The Guardian - UK News

Conservative leader is addressing delegates in Birmingham Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, is speaking now at the conference. He described Nick Timothy as the “Bob the Builder” of the next parliament on the basis of the Tory pledge to build 50,000 prison places.“Can he fix it? Yes he can,” Philp said. He went on:I know we didn’t get everything right in government, but we now have a plan to make things better, whereas Labour is making them worse.Dangerous men released early from jail. Police numbers down by 2,000. Stop and search opposed. 92% of crime unsolved. Illegal immigrants and foreign criminals not deported.So many parts of government are corrupted by radical identity politics and a deference to clan culture.We can no longer trust our institutions to work for us all, to uphold the principle that justice is blind, that we’re all equal before the law. Continue reading...

Conservative leader is addressing delegates in Birmingham

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, is speaking now at the conference. He described Nick Timothy as the “Bob the Builder” of the next parliament on the basis of the Tory pledge to build 50,000 prison places.

“Can he fix it? Yes he can,” Philp said. He went on:

I know we didn’t get everything right in government, but we now have a plan to make things better, whereas Labour is making them worse.

Dangerous men released early from jail. Police numbers down by 2,000. Stop and search opposed. 92% of crime unsolved. Illegal immigrants and foreign criminals not deported.

So many parts of government are corrupted by radical identity politics and a deference to clan culture.

We can no longer trust our institutions to work for us all, to uphold the principle that justice is blind, that we’re all equal before the law.

Continue reading...