Final two Tory leadership contenders clash over future of party in TV debate
The Guardian|October 18, 2024
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick have attacked each other's visions for the future of the Conservative party, in a sometimes low-key debate which could nonetheless prove vital in who becomes the next opposition leader.
Peter Walker
Final two Tory leadership contenders clash over future of party in TV debate

The event on GB News, the only debate scheduled, involved the pair taking turns to tackle questions from audience members rather than going head to head, but featured notable differences of opinion on strategy and policies such as immigration.

Jenrick, going first, repeatedly pledged to "end the drama" in the Tory party, seen as a coded reference to Badenoch's sometimes combustible approach.

Badenoch was polite about her opponent as a person but scathing when it came to his suite of headline policies, notably Jenrick's repeated pledge to immediately quit the European convention on human rights (ECHR), which he again styled yesterday as a Brexit-type "leave or remain" issue.

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