The Conservative party conference is in full swing in Manchester with plenty more speeches and fringe events to go. Despite being rather poorly attended this year, the atmosphere among members is not downbeat – although already Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has had to defend herself again some rather unfortunate poll results. A YouGov poll has revealed that half of all Tory members don’t think Badenoch should lead the party into the next election, which is hardly the best of news for the party leader to receive in the middle of her group’s big annual meet…

But Badenoch has hit back, complaining to Times Radio today that she is being ‘written off’ much like Margaret Thatcher was when she was in opposition. She went on about the Iron Lady:

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