Former leveling minister Kemi Badenoch received 40 votes in the first round of Tory leadership voting, coming fourth behind Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss. Lee Rowley, her campaign manager, says her campaign has attracted attention because it is “saying something different” and that the party needs “some change”. Badenoch focuses on certain issues, including cultural issues, but is it a broad enough candidate? “He has absolutely broad views on everything, and he starts from the premise that government should do some things well, but not a lot of things badly, and we should have a set of principles that we apply to government,” he says. BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. “It has a number of policies that will all be put in place over the next few days.” She has promised tax cuts and low regulation, while criticizing the net-zero emissions target in her leadership bid “What Kemi is trying to say on a number of issues is, ‘We need to get back to the basics … what are we trying to do, are we doing it right?’” he adds.
