Tory leader brushes off suggestion that defections to Reform reflect badly on her leadership
Q: Does it worry you that ambitious politicians on the right think they have to join Reform UK to get on?
Badenoch said there are a lot of people who come into politics “just to play the game of politics”. They follow the polls, and defect, she said. She was different, she suggested. She said she was working on a proper plan for government.
UPDATE: Badenoch said:
This is something which I say again and again, that there are a lot of people who come into politics just to play the game of politics. And they will follow polls and defect wherever they can, like they do in banana republics, to wherever they think that they can win.
