Badenoch now claims only her party can be trusted to govern the country competently. The Tories are \u201ca party of serious people, not drama queens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Voters \u2014 and her own MPs \u2014\u00a0are not yet convinced. <\/p>\n
Badenoch continues to languish in the polls<\/a>, and ex-Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, veteran MP Andrew Rosindell and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman have all jumped ship to Reform UK<\/a> this month claiming Britain is broken thanks to the Conservatives.<\/p>\n The Tory leader laid into those former colleagues, accusing them of having \u201ca tantrum dressed up as politics.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sorry you didn\u2019t win the leadership contest. I\u2019m sorry you didn\u2019t get a job in the shadow cabinet. I\u2019m sorry you didn\u2019t get into the Lords,\u201d Badenoch said, accusing them of \u201cnot offering a plan to fix this country.\u201d<\/p>\n Badenoch also jumped on in-fighting in the ruling Labour Party, accusing its MPs of \u201cscheming to get in a new contender to challenge the prime minister.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Badenoch now claims only her party can be trusted to govern the country competently. The Tories are \u201ca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[51040,51041,49821,416,51042,51043,1442,9,24,51044,63,122,124,123,48905,51045,51046,5878,51047],"class_list":["post-114980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-andrew-rosindell","tag-andy-burnham","tag-british-politics","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-mayors","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nigel-farage","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rights","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-suella-braverman","tag-united-kingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}