Badenoch to ‘get better’ at media and PMQs, says Stride, as he backs her as leader – UK politics live | Politics
By: Andrew Sparrow | Published: 2025-06-05 12:18:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
Badenoch will ‘get better through time’ at the media and at PMQs, Stride says, insisting she is best leader for Tories
Q: Do you think the Conservative party should change its leadership election rules to stop the members choosing another Liz Truss?
Stride says he does not want to comment on that process.
But he says Kemi Badenoch is the best person to deliver the thoughtful style of leadership and politics that he has been calling for. (See 11.23am.)
He says:
If you look at the nature of the challenge and the approach to it that I have set out, which is deep thought through through time and thoughfulness, she is the person to lead us.
She will get better through time at the media. She will get better through time at dispatch box though PMQs, just as Margaret Thatcher, when she became…
