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Conservative Party Conference 2025: Kemi Badenoch speech; ENGLAND: Manchester: Manchester Central Convention Complex: CPC25:INTMembers seen in audience including:Chris Philp MP (Shadow Home Secretary)Sir Mel Stride MP (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer)Victoria Atkins MP (Shadow Environment Secretary)Andrew Griffiths MP (Shadow Business Secretary)Helen Whately MP (Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary)Sir James Cleverly MP (Shadow Housing Secretary)Laura Trott MP (Shadow Education Secretary)Julia Lopez MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology)Priti Patel MP (Shadow Foreign Secretary)Alex Burghart MP (Northern Ireland Secretary)Kemi Badenoch MP (Conservative Party Leader) speech SOT I remember when Shabana Mahmood tried to stop foreign criminals being deported. Do you remember that one?I remember when she lay down on the ground in front of a Sainsbury’s protesting because they were selling food from Israel.So, forgive me, if I treat this new-found tough image with a little scepticism. You remember.Labour represents everything that is wrong with politics.Rachel Reeves likes to congratulate herself for breaking the glass ceiling.But what she’s really broken, is our economy.Attacking those who work hard, destroying business confidence, forcing wealth creators to leave the country, piling debt onto our children.We know, that in her November Budget of Doom, she will give us all something to cry about.The highest business taxes since the 1970s.Taxes on farmers.Taxes on education - an unprecedented tax punishing parents who work hard to invest in their children’s future.Shameful.The tax burden is so high.It is making Britain poorer.Because business is giving up.Business is leaving.And as they leave, or never start in the first place, people’s livelihoods, people’s hopes, people’s dreams, go with them.Grangemouth refinery gone, Merck, BMW, Ineos pulling investment.Schools for...