{"id":424675,"date":"2026-02-14T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:01:09","slug":"kemi-badenoch-tells-welsh-conservatives-party-has-plan-for-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424675\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch tells Welsh Conservatives party has plan for Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badenoch vowed to boost British industry with cheaper energy, by cutting regulation and building more, saying: &#8220;We need to fall in love with building again and building things well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by BBC Wales whether the Tories can actually win in Wales, Badenoch said &#8220;anything can happen&#8221;, and pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg1y72091no\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales&#8217;s new voting system<\/a> &#8220;where every vote counts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Conservatives up and down Wales don&#8217;t have to think about tactical voting or maybe we can&#8217;t win in a particular area,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badenoch had previously criticised Robert Jenrick, before he defected for Reform, for describing Britain as broken, and appeared reluctant to agree with Senedd group leader Millar that Wales was &#8220;broken&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pushed on whether she agreed with Millar, she said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a loose framing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;There are things in Wales that are broken. All of this is semantics. Everyone knows there are some things that aren&#8217;t working very well, but we need to also remain positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On post-election deals, she said it is up to &#8220;local people&#8221; in her party &#8220;to decide what coalition is going to work best with them&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badenoch vowed to boost British industry with cheaper energy, by cutting regulation and building more, saying: &#8220;We need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-424675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}