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Robert Jenrick has almost caught up with Badenoch in terms of popularity with members, a poll suggests. (See 9.37am.)
1.01pm.James Cleverly or Tom Tugendhat.the point about Margaret Thatcher she made in the conference hall yesterday. And she goes on:
Whoever wins this competition is going to get misrepresented or misquoted. It is a conservative thing.
But the difference is that if they are misrepresenting our values, when I am leading, I will make sure that I come up and defend us. I’m not going to apologise to the BBC or the Guardian or any of the leftwing media or press.
10.24am.)
Badenoch says the average Tory association is full of what she thinks of as the old middle class – people who produce things.
But now the middle class is full of people who work in bureaucracy. She explains:
It’s people who rely on government. It’s not just civil service or people who work as equality, diversity and inclusion instructors. It’s also people who need the government in order to make money.
That happened to me when I worked in banking, I went into tech, building things, and I had to move into compliance, working out regulations, because that’s where the promotions were.
An extreme example of this is a hotelier that I met just after Covid, and I said ‘My daughter working hotels. This must have been the worst time ever.’ And he said, ‘Kemi, I’ve never made so much money in my life. My hotel is full of asylum seekers.’
This is not producing. This is people living off government.
Source: theguardian.com
