Kemi Badenoch

Leader of the Conservative Party. MP for North West Essex.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

A government that doesn’t know what it believes will be buffeted by events and achieve little.

Britain has been heading in the wrong direction because governments keep treating symptoms rather than causes - often trying to correct problems they themselves created.

The Right Way is the Conservative answer to this challenge.

Read it here 👇

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

https://t.co/hNqfdFCQUH

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Britain has been taxed too much for too long.

Andy Burnham’s answer? More tax.

Conservatives will cut taxes, so you can keep more of what you earn.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour must cut spending and live within our means. My warning to Andy Burnham 👇 https://t.co/ayWEyaZNoF

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

.@KemiBadenoch will speak directly to Andy Burnham.

Watch LIVE on X from 10am.

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

Foreign polygamous and incestuous Aunt-Nephew and Uncle-Niece marriages should not be recognised by Britain’s welfare system.

@Conservatives closed Polygamy loopholes for Universal Credit and we want them shut off for welfare across the board. Taxpayers in Britain should not be supporting marriages which would be illegal in the UK.

Tomorrow, backed by @KemiBadenoch, my Bill would end welfare recognition of polygamous marriages and explicitly exclude incestuous marriages.

Over to you, @UKLabour @andyburnham. Back the Bill. This really shouldn’t be difficult.

Not all cultures are equal and we should not be paying to recognise those which are explicitly illegal if practiced in the UK.

https://t.co/giZ5qdCJXo

Via @MillardClothier in @DailyMail

[James Cartlidge MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @jcartlidgemp]

Brilliant to stand with our veterans alongside @KemiBadenoch in Parliament Square against the Government’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill. With two days of debate ahead of us, we will keep opposing Labour’s damaging lawfare. We will defend those who defended us.

[Victoria Atkins @VictoriaAtkins]

Nearly two years ago, Labour broke its election promise to rural communities and made family farms and family businesses its first target, introducing the family farm and family business taxes to fund benefits for others.

It was the start of a pernicious attack on the rural way of life. Tens of thousands left the countryside to protest outside No10 against these death taxes, which threatened farms and businesses that had survived for generations.

The Conservatives stood with farmers. We protested, proved Labour’s costings wrong, shared the heartbreaking stories of affected families, and forced vote after vote in the Commons.

Our collective effort produced one of the most humiliating u-turns of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Labour slipped it out the day before Christmas Eve, hoping nobody would notice, and raised the threshold. Farmers and the Conservatives noticed, and made clear it did not go nearly far enough.

Since then, more than nine in ten farmers have halted investment, and 87% say their profits have been significantly hit. The government is already presiding over record farm closures.

Last week, the Conservatives forced the eighth vote on these taxes. Labour MPs again failed the countryside by voting to keep them.

But with the Budget less than ten days away, there is still time for the new Prime Minister to deliver on his promise to “build back trust” with farming communities.

Number 10 insiders suggest the tax could be abolished or watered down. If true, it would be a huge admission that the government got this policy wrong.

Farming families will neither forgive nor forget the stress they have endured. But scrapping these taxes would give them certainty for the future of their farms, and lift one burden as they recover from the worst harvest on record while facing higher fuel prices, the jobs tax and the fertiliser tax.

This matters to us all. In an increasingly dangerous world, we need farmers to grow the food we eat, not sell up.

Enough is enough. Andy Burnham must axe these vindictive taxes in their entirety.

If he doesn’t, the @Conservatives will scrap them when we return to government.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Cliveden House burnt down in 1849. The architect behind Parliament rebuilt it in two years.

Now, Parliament has spent over a decade just planning its own repairs.

What happened to the country that built things? 👇

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

A powerful intervention from the head of the Army. Something is coming, and government needs to wake up.

He says the public will have to make sacrifices so we can prioritise defence and security.

This is no time for “national security can’t come at the expense of social security”. Hard choices are coming whether ministers like it or not.

I have been clear where I would start: cut welfare spending and put the money into defence.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour still haven’t learnt that taxes have consequences. John Healey and Andy Burnham need to learn quickly.

Rachel Reeves thought her jobs tax would be paid by businesses. Instead, workers paid the price through job losses and smaller pay rises.

Now Labour want to tax the banks because it looks like an easy way to raise money, doesn’t it?

But banks lend money to people buying homes and businesses creating jobs. Millions of people’s pensions are invested in them too.

Higher taxes mean a smaller pension for you, less lending and less investment, meaning fewer jobs and ordinary people paying the price again.

Labour can’t act shocked when this happens - they have been warned.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I’m in Edinburgh and being asked a lot of questions about ITV’s Reform expose.

The reported comments show yet again why we’re not doing deals with Reform. We want Reform voters back, not Reform politicians.

Reform voters are being let down by the people who claim to represent them. Many of these people were the ones who let them down in the Conservative Party. We are now under new management.

These people caused a lot of problems and is why I say Nigel Farage has been doing my spring cleaning.

These problems will keep coming for Reform. Just as Farage is being investigated, so is Robert Jenrick, and so is Richard Tice. These problems will never end because of the kind of people they are - they don’t care about high standards of conduct.

That is why I am showing those voters who want to defeat Labour but left the Conservative Party that it’s time to come home. We are under new management, and you deserve better than this.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is the third time in three PMQs that Andy Burnham has had to correct what he’s said afterwards.

This is now a recurring pattern where the PM spends all his time fixing his own gaffes, instead of sorting out welfare or finding the money to defend our country.

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

NEW: Andy Burnham has been forced to correct the record after his Anne Widdecombe trial blunder at PMQs yesterday.

No10 has issued a clarification to Hansard and his words will be updated.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

For nearly 40 years, Sir David Amess devoted his life to public service.

Five years ago, while doing his job, meeting the people he represented, he was murdered by an Islamist terrorist. I remember David as a committed colleague who cared deeply about his constituents.

Today, my thoughts are with David’s family as we remember his life and service.

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

"I'll have no apprentices next year" the salon owner told us, compared to her usual tally of 12.

It isn’t for lack of interest. Young people phone or turn up at her door almost every day hoping to be taken on. Some parents have even offered to cover the cost themselves so their child isn't NEET.

The problem is what it now costs to keep a salon open and employing staff. Labour’s jobs tax, business rates and energy bills have all gone up, and customers are paying for it every time they go for a haircut.

Some owners have stopped employing stylists and now rent out chairs to self-employed workers instead, which keeps them under the VAT threshold. That leaves the salons who keep staff on the payroll and train the next generation at a disadvantage.

I heard this first hand with @KemiBadenoch and Shadow Cabinet colleagues this #BritishBeautyWeek, and the message was clear: these businesses want to hire, we just need to back them.

That’s why @Conservatives will cut National Insurance for 21 to 24-year-olds and cut business rates for most high street shops. That's how we'll get Britain working.

[FIG Representative to the UK and Europe @FalklandsRepUK]

Thank you to the Leader of @Conservatives, @KemiBadenoch, and Shadow Defence Secretary, @jcartlidgemp, for your support for the Falkland Islands and our right to self-determination. 🇫🇰🇬🇧

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I invited women from Piddington to Parliament because Labour isn’t listening to them.

Their village of 300 faces over 1,200 male illegal migrants on its doorstep. Meanwhile, Labour is handing out leaflets explaining to these men that rape is a crime. You couldn’t make it up.

Today we forced a vote to stop it. Labour and the Lib Dems refused to back us.

Women should feel safe in their communities. Conservatives will leave the ECHR so we can deport illegal migrants instead of forcing small villages to bear the consequences.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Rents up. Energy bills up. Food bills up.

Labour’s tsunami of regulations and tax rises are pushing up prices.

No Government can fully control prices, but these extra costs are battering consumers at the very worst time.

My message to Conservative conference👇🏾

[Sherelle Jacobs @Sherelle_E_J]

Strange defence of Nigel Farage from this US official, who says America has "always had" perpetual access to Diego Garcia. It has not: the agreement runs to 2036. On Washington’s own logic, if the US already has what Farage is offering, why would he dangle it in exchange for the US going quiet on the Falklands? Presumably Farage is offering to make their access permanent instead. And for the UK to give away permanent basing rights in exchange for a vague, revocable promise from Donald Trump is pretty weak bargaining.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Andy Burnham is too busy appeasing his MPs and shying away from difficult decisions to give our country the leadership it needs.

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

British Sovereignty over British Territory isn’t something for @Nigel_Farage to play games with his mates over

Whether it’s 🇫🇰 or 🇮🇴 they’re not for sale, not to be traded away, and @reformparty_uk can bugger off if they think it is

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[Julia Lopez MP @JuliaLopezMP]

If you're wondering why the cost of your haircut has shot up, it's because salons are getting hammered by the jobs tax, soaring business rates and higher utility bills.

To survive, many are asking staff to go down the self-employed, rent-a-chair route that brings them under the VAT threshold. That makes things even tougher for those salons still directly employing people.

The hair and beauty industry lost 1 in 5 employees last year - it’s the largest loss of employment of any job type in the UK. So many young people want to start their careers in the industry. But fewer salons can afford to employ and train them.

Today I brought @KemiBadenoch and some of the Shadow Cabinet ladies to Hornchurch to speak to some of the passionate people running our high street salons.

We have a plan to help, from slashing employer NICs for 21-24 year-olds to taking most of the high street out of business rates. There is more to do and we are grateful to the women we spoke to this #britishbeautyweek for giving us ideas to keep these brilliant businesses at the heart of local communities.