Badenoch says Reform pact ‘a non-starter’ after call to ‘get together with Nige’

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Kemi Badenoch has again ruled out working with Reform UK after a voter urged her to “get together with Nige”.The Conservative Party leader has repeatedly dismissed the prospect of a pact with Reform before the next election.She visited Hertfordshire on Tuesday to publicise her party’s call to scrap VAT on energy bills for three years amid the war in the Middle East.

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00:08Nice to see you. I like your stuff.

00:10Oh, thank you.

00:10I'm a great style, scientist, business person, first principles.

00:15Together with Nigel.

00:17Nice to meet you, and thank you for that.

00:20Actually, that was a surprise, having someone on the doorstep asking me to team up with another party.

00:26It's usually journalists who ask me about teaming up with reform.

00:30It is a non-starter.

00:31We are the Conservative Party.

00:33A lot of the people who caused the problems in the Conservative Party have actually gone to reform.

00:38Nigel Farage is doing my spring cleaning.

00:40I am showing that this is a new Conservative Party under new leadership.

00:44And with policies like our cheap power plan, abolishing business rates, getting rid of stamp duty,

00:50I want people to see that this is a new party with new ideas for the future, not the past.

00:56So we could just have to start one after today.

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