In full: Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat faced leadership Q&A with Tory members

Reform UK’s leadership are not “real conservatives” or “serious people”, Kemi Badenoch has said. The shadow housing secretary made the remarks during a question-and-answer session with Conservative members on the second day of the annual Tory conference in Birmingham. Mrs Badenoch has been a vocal critic of Reform, which outflanked the Conservatives on the Right at the last election and won just over four million votes, largely at the expense of Rishi Sunak’s party. Get the latest headlines: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.