Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to continue "telling the truth" rather than "chasing polls with easy policies" despite the party's challenging position in recent polling.Speaking to GB News, Badenoch acknowledged the Tories are facing "tough times" but insisted she would not be "underestimated."FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Let's just look at this, because you wrote a really hard-hitting piece for the Sunday Telegraph today, right?
00:04You point out it's been a disastrous week for Labour.
00:06We've got the EU surrender. We've got the bungled Albanian trip, which was embarrassing in Tirana.
00:12We've got the Chagos sellout. We've got the Prime Minister at sixes and sevens over the winter fuel cut.
00:19And yet, and still, you're the opposition and you're tanking fourth behind the Liberal Democrats.
00:25That must hurt.
00:26There was a single poll, and I'm not going to deny that these are tough times,
00:29but I'm not going to be underestimated, Camilla.
00:31I remember when I moved back to this country with nothing but my dad's last hundred pounds,
00:35working at McDonald's, people constantly underestimate me, and they're constantly confounded.
00:40I'm going to fight through this, but the reason why it's tough is because we're not giving the easy answers.
00:45We are telling the truth.
00:46It's very difficult when the government is tanking.
00:49They should be having a honeymoon period, and we're saying, here are the reasons why things are going wrong.
00:53You've got another party saying, we'll give you all these freebies.
00:56We'll have all these fun things. That's the challenge.
00:58But I'm going to tell the truth.
01:00The Conservative Party is here to build a real proposition to change our country.
01:04We're not going to chase polls with easy policies.
01:06I could have thrown out lots of policies to move up in the polls, but I'm not going to lie to your viewers.
01:11There are people out there, like the fishermen I met the day before yesterday.
01:14They're losing their jobs.
01:15Their industries are dying.
01:16Energy prices are too high.
01:18Inflation is up.
01:19Unemployment is up.
01:20What are we going to do?
01:21Can you definitely tear up that deal with the EU?
01:24The EU, yes.
01:25We left the EU.
01:27All these sorts of negotiations you can change.
01:29The problem is, how bad will it be in four years?
01:31Every day that Labour is in government, they're making things harder for whoever comes in to solve it.
01:37But we are ready for that.
01:38I am ready for that.