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'You can trust us', Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tells Lancashire voters on local election visit
Lancashire Post
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10/04/2025
The Conservative Party leader came to the border of Fylde and Preston for a campaign stop - where she spoke to local democracy reporter Paul Faulkner.
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Ms Badenock, you'll probably be aware that a couple of Lancashire Conservative County
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councillors and the leader of Ribble Valley Borough Council defected to reform a few weeks
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ago.
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What can you say to Conservative voters in Lancashire to persuade them from following
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the same path at the local elections?
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Well, obviously I'm very sad to lose any of our members to any other party, but right
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now, having suffered a historic defeat, what we need to do is rebuild trust with the public.
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That means making sure people understand what the Conservative offer is at this election.
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Conservative councils deliver better services for lower taxes.
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Reform has never run a council before, and we need to show people that we are running
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for the right reasons so that we can deliver for them, not just to win elections.
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You mentioned lower taxes, Lancashire County Council, a Conservative run currently, it's
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had to raise its council tax by the maximum amount in three out of the last four years.
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Are the Conservatives really that different at the local level to other parties?
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Yes, because even when we have rises, they are lower than what's happening elsewhere.
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I've been talking a lot about Birmingham at the moment.
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They raise their council tax, I think, by 20%, yet the streets are covered in rubbish.
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They haven't even used the money people are paying to deliver the services.
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They're rats running around.
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Conservative council, Litchfield, is now helping them clear their rubbish because they've declared
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a national emergency.
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That cannot be right.
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And one of the things that I remember about Lancashire County Council is that when Labour was running
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it, it would have become bankrupt.
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That's why Conservatives got vooted in.
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They inherited a very difficult financial situation and they have made it a lot better.
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They still have to save £100 million over the next two years, tens of millions of that
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in savings that haven't been delivered thus far.
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Don't the roots of financial challenges like that have their roots in 14 years of Conservative
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national government and the fact that they treated local government as a bit of an afterthought?
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No, I disagree with that.
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All of the money that gets given to local government comes from taxpayers.
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We currently have the highest tax burden ever.
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What we need now is to start making life easier for people.
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And what I am telling people is that when Labour were campaigning in the election, they promised
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to freeze council tax.
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Where is that freeze?
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It hasn't happened anywhere.
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They broke promises and what we're telling people now is that they're making life even more
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fragile for our citizens, our economy is becoming more fragile, they've raised taxes, they promised
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not to, like the jobs tax, NI has gone up, growth has halved, inflation is up, borrowing
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is up.
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We're really worried about the economy and we're asking people to put their trust in Conservatives
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this.
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Because even when times are tough, we still deliver better services for lower taxes.
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Thanks.
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Thanks, thanks.
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Thanks.
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Thanks for reminding us so far.
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Thanks.
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