Kemi Badenoch will attack the Conservative Party's record under Boris Johnson and Theresa May on Brexit, the economy, net zero and immigration in a speech aimed at “restoring trust”. .
The Conservative Party leader, who competes with the rapidly rising popularity of Nigel Farage's British Reform Party, will “admit that the Conservative Party made mistakes” under his predecessor.
Mr Badenoch blamed his decision to pursue Brexit without a plan for economic growth outside the EU, his failure to curb immigration despite repeated promises, and his commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 without specifying how. It will address legal commitments to achieve.
Her words are an acknowledgment of the Conservative Party's responsibility for Britain's slow growth over the past five years. These are public rebukes of Prime Ministers Theresa May and Johnson, who led Britain to leave the EU after the 2016 referendum.
Theresa May is also the prime minister who signed into law the UK's commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. Mr Badenoch has been critical of climate change policy, describing the 2022 net zero target as “unilateral economic disarmament”.
In her speech she would say: The truth about the mistakes we've made. The truth about the problems we face. And the truth about the actions we should take to get out of this mess.
“These mistakes happened because we tried to tell people first what they wanted to hear and then try to solve it later. That's going to stop under my leadership. If we're going to turn our country around, If you do, you'll have to say things that are difficult to hear.”
In November, the Conservative Party leader revealed how he believed his party had failed on immigration, including promising to reduce the population after leaving the EU but failing to do so. Net migration has soared since leaving the EU, reaching 685,000 in 2023. In 2019, when the Conservative Party pledged to cut immigration in its manifesto, the figure was 219,000.
On Thursday, Mr Badenoch said politicians of all parties “have not been honest with the people about the challenges we face” and that as a result “generations of leaders and the entire hierarchy of senior management “We have gone through many years of trial and error,” he plans to claim. .
