Badenoch criticises Tory handling of Brexit

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised her predecessors for mishandling Brexit, saying leaving the EU without a growth plan was a "mistake". In her first major speech of 2025, Badenoch will attack the Labour's government but also her own party for repeatedly pledging to lower immigration as numbers "kept going up" and for promising net zero carbon emissions by 2050 without a clear plan. Badenoch pledged to tell hard truths "even when it's difficult to hear" to restore trust with the public. Labour chairwoman Ellie Reeves accused the Tory leader...