Kemi Badenoch has emphasised the importance of internal discussions not being leaked in the first meeting of the shadow cabinet since Rishi Sunak’s demise.
Leaked cabinet discussions suggest the former levelling-up secretary, who managed to fend off Labour’s Issy Waite in the July General Election to hold her North West Essex seat, was dismayed by the Conservative Party’s landslide defeat.
She aired concerns that some of her colleagues are failing to grasp the “enormity” of the loss, which saw the Tories slump to just 121 seats in the House of Commons, down 244 from their 2019 total.