Fuming Kemi Badenoch says thousands of civil servants should be JAILED ‘as race to become next Tory leader tightens’
Date: 2024-10-21
KEMI Badenoch said thousands of civil servants should be jailed — as bookies claim the race to be Tory leader is tightening.
The firebrand let rip at Whitehall, telling a party conference fringe event: “There’s about five to ten per cent of them who are very, very bad — you know should be in prison bad, leaking official secrets, undermining ministers, agitating.â€
Kemi Badenoch said thousands of civil servants should be jailed[/caption]
Ex-Home Secretary James Cleverly’s odds at winning the race were shortening[/caption]
Claiming she had faced it in her department, the former Business Secretary added: “The trick to being a good minister is to find the good ones quickly, bring them close and try and get the bad ones out of your department as quickly as possible.â€
Ex-Home Secretary James Cleverly’s odds were shortening last night — as the two front-runners Robert Jenrick and Badenoch faced backlashes over outspoken claims.
Bookies have Jenrick as favourite at 8/11, with the winner to be announced at the start of November.
Mr Cleverly is seen as the big mover of the week in the betting at 7/2, shortening from 12/1 last week, Betfair said.
Today Ms Badenoch will insist “wealth is not a dirty word†when she makes her direct pitch to membership.
She will hail the British entrepreneurial spirit, seen as essential to pay for a better NHS and education system.
Meanwhile, Mr Jenrick will reject mass migration, focus on cheap and reliable energy and get the country building.
In his address today, he will say: “If we’re to restore the public’s trust, we must build something new — a new Conservative Party.â€
Team Badenoch last night claimed she was joking over the jailing comments.
Bookies have Robert Jenrick as favourite at 8/11[/caption]