The Tory leader was also defiant about the threat her party faces from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, urging voters to remember politics is not “showbusiness” and that “you will have to live with what you vote for”.
Voters across a number of county councils and unitary authorities in England will go to the polls on May 1, the first major electoral test since last July's general election, in which the Conservatives suffered a crushing defeat and have since been overtaken in opinion polls by Reform.
Mrs Badenoch pledged “lower taxes and better services” as she launched the Tories’ local campaign yesterday.
“We are the only credible choice: Lib Dems will wreck your public services, Reform has no experience running anything, Greens will run councils into the ground and Labour will spend, tax and waste your money, just like they always do,” she told an audience of Tory activists in Buckinghamshire.
In an attempt to manage expectations about the party’s success in the coming elections, Mrs Badenoch said the Conservatives had been “riding high during the vaccine bounce” the last time the councils went to the polls in 2021.
She added that this year would be different after the general election result, telling the audience:
“If you map ...
Voters across a number of county councils and unitary authorities in England will go to the polls on May 1, the first major electoral test since last July's general election, in which the Conservatives suffered a crushing defeat and have since been overtaken in opinion polls by Reform.
Mrs Badenoch pledged “lower taxes and better services” as she launched the Tories’ local campaign yesterday.
“We are the only credible choice: Lib Dems will wreck your public services, Reform has no experience running anything, Greens will run councils into the ground and Labour will spend, tax and waste your money, just like they always do,” she told an audience of Tory activists in Buckinghamshire.
In an attempt to manage expectations about the party’s success in the coming elections, Mrs Badenoch said the Conservatives had been “riding high during the vaccine bounce” the last time the councils went to the polls in 2021.
She added that this year would be different after the general election result, telling the audience:
“If you map ...
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