{"id":21859,"date":"2026-05-06T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:24:42","slug":"kemi-badenoch-labour-leadership-challengers-are-all-the-same-left-wingery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21859\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch: Labour leadership challengers are &#8216;all the same Left-wingery&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Kemi Badenoch: Labour leadership challengers are &#039;all the same Left-wingery&#039;\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZpoh-HT6x0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nKemi Badenoch: Labour leadership challengers are &#8216;all the same Left-wingery&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs the hours tick down to Thursday\u2019s local election polls, things are getting \u2018serious\u2019 for Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.<\/p>\n<p>While it is Labour that is braced for a ballot box drubbing, the Conservatives are also on course to lose hundreds of seats, mainly to Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of polling, The Telegraph grabbed a ten minute taxi ride with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to see assess the party leader\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n<p>Driving to her first campaign stop in a Conservative-branded black cab, Ms Badenoch said she hoped to spread the message that her party was the \u201csensible alternative\u201d to failure from Labour failure or populism from Reform and the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying right now, there\u2019s only one serious party &#8211; that\u2019s the Conservative Party,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Greens are away with the fairies. Goodness knows what the Lib Dems are up to. Reform are telling people whatever it is they want to hear, but they don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to deliver it \u2013 that\u2019s what they did last year as well. And Labour are making a mess of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At last year\u2019s election, the Conservatives lost English council seats while serving in opposition &#8212; for the first time in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Tories look set to lose even more, as Reform picks up support in Conservatives strongholds across England, from the northern Red Wall to home counties heartlands in the South and East.<\/p>\n<p>While Ms Badenoch\u2019s position as party leader is thought to be safe despite a difficult night for the Tories, the local elections have the power to hasten the decline of Sir Keir Starmer, as they did for Margaret Thatcher in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>There is widespread speculation that the Prime Minister will face a leadership challenge next week after losing an estimated 1900 seats and control of the Welsh Senedd.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Badenoch said she believes that if Sir Keir is challenged, he should call a general election and allow the parties to fight it out for control in No10. His replacements are often tipped as Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the public should have their chance to have a say on what it is they want,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s very clear that Labour went in pretending to be one thing, and now the public, who hadn\u2019t seen Labour for a very long time, have a good clear idea of what this Labour Party is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSo I do think so [&#8230;] I think that if there was a general election today, we would have the best offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tory leader said the three contenders to replace Sir Keir were \u201call the same left wing nonsense\u201d and that none would have a mandate to govern in Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just left wingery in a different outfit, with red hair, or with a cheesy grin, or just weirdness,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s still the same Left-wingery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the Tories are forced out in the East of England shires like Norfolk and Suffolk and the Red Wall, Reform claims they would \u201ccease to be a national party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These elections seem unlikely to be the moment for Mrs Badenoch to reverse the decline of her party, but she insists it is still possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mission is to get out there, be straight talking and let people know that we are the serious party,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI\u2019m an engineer. I love fixing things. It\u2019s one of the reasons why I went into politics. I like to solve problems, and we are different from all those other people who think this is a game show, and who think that winning the election is the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWinning an election is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>#ukpolitics #keirstarmer #news <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch: Labour leadership challengers are &#8216;all the same Left-wingery&#8217; As the hours tick down to Thursday\u2019s local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4415,263,21630,2368,8246,265,19187,31,338,339,326,325,340,337,341,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-21859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-telegraph","8":"tag-conservative-party","9":"tag-keir-starmer","10":"tag-kemi","11":"tag-kemi-badenoch","12":"tag-labour-leadership","13":"tag-local-elections","14":"tag-may-local-elections","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-publisher","17":"tag-newspaper","18":"tag-nigel-farage","19":"tag-reform-uk","20":"tag-telegraph","21":"tag-the-telegraph","22":"tag-uk-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116529148911226519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}