Kemi Badenoch asserted that Conservative Party can only address the key issues facing Britain.

Kemi Badenoch has confessed that her Conservative Party had created certain problems while in power, for which they were voted out in the elections. The Tory leader have witfully admitted the state of the economy, borders, the welfare bill, all of which were in dire straits when the Conservatives were removed from power. But she has whined while rejecting the rhetoric, “A weak economy and weak borders mean steady decline”.

In her major speech at the closing of the Tory Party conference in Manchester, Mrs. Badenoch bragged about how great the Tory Party is, and how it is the only party that can meet the test of the generation. Devoted Tory supporters applauded her as she praised the “collective wisdom” of her MPs, peers and councillors. Kemi Badenoch had a lot to say about border security, as she battles to win back voters from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

The Tory leader told delegates in Manchester, “Conference, people around the world are determined to lift their lives, and their children’s lives up to a standard that we have taken for granted. Some nations won’t be able to do this. And in those countries millions of people will decide that they want to come here instead. And if our borders are not secure, they will succeed. Especially, if our economy is opened to migrates. Of course, we want brilliant minds and great talents to come here“.

However, she made no reference to Boris Johnson’s decision to bring in looser rules, causing a surge in the migration into the UK to a record high 906,000 till June 2023. Or that Rishi Sunak completely failed to stop the influx, despite being repeatedly pledged. Moreover, she has blamed Rachel Reeves for the fragmentation of the Britain’s economy, while reaffirming that only the Tories can realign the economy. Unfortunately for her, the public hasn’t forgotten Liz Truss and the impact her disastrous mini Budget had on their mortgage payments.

The 49-day Prime Minister trashed the Tories’ reputation for keeping control of the economy with her plans for bonanza of tax cuts for the rich that triggered market chaos. Even before that, growth was sluggish. And productivity has been stubbornly low. So, it’s a bit rich for Ms Badenoch to lay all that Labour’s door. As she issued gloomy warnings about the November Budget of Doom, she has forgotten about the Halloween horrors of Tory Chancellors past.

She addressed the conference stating, “The reason, why the Conservative Party is the only party in Britain who can be trusted to meet the test of our generation is that none of this works without a strong economy“. But the big question is, “what were they doing in the 14 years they were in charge”?

Ms. Badenoch complained in her speech that the tax burden is too high. But she neglected to mention that it rose to the highest point since 1948 in 2024 following the huge state expenditure during the pandemic. Rishi Sunak was PM at the time, of course.

Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves faces a nightmare Budget this autumn, partly due to the mess the Tories left behind. Public services were starved of cash over years of austerity, and now require huge amount of investment to stand still. And Labour is working to rebuild trading ties and attract investment to Britain after the Tories alienated our largest trading partner, the EU, with Brexit wars.

Kemi Badenoch declared in her speech that only the Conservatives “understand” how the welfare system should work. As part of Tory plans to cut £24 billion from the welfare bill, she pledged to block non-British citizens from accessing benefits and to restrict benefits to those with the most severe mental health conditions, not anxiety or mild depression. And she vowed to restrict eligibility for motability cars, telling the conference they are “not for people with ADHD“.

“We will return it to its founding principle that support only goes to those that really need it. This should be common sense, but only the Conservatives understand this”.

The DWP changes were announced earlier during the conference and are spearheaded by her Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride. But it is truthfully important that it was Mr. Stride himself who personally oversaw the biggest increase in benefits spending in decades during his time as Work and Pensions Secretary.

DWP Social Security spending in Great Britain rose from £233.6 billion in 2022/23 to £266.9 billion in 2023/24, a £33.3 billion rise. That is the biggest increase since the figures started being collated in 1996/97.

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