Kemi Badenoch still has no ideas

Kemi Badenoch's leadership speech was her first of 2025 and big opportunity to tell the country what the Tories now stand for.

The essence of that change is up for debate, but the key takeaway is that the Conservatives have changed.

Her pitch was that the party needed time to reflect on what had gone wrong in government and get its ideas straight.

Badenoch listed what was wrong with the country: low productivity, high taxes, price rises, broken public services, businesses going under.

But she had little to offer in the way of solutions.

Even when she was asked if she should have called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, she could not admit any blame.

There was no mention at all of pensions and the unsustainability of the current system.