In full: Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat faced leadership Q&A with Tory members

[@MarkRE333]

The best answer I have ever heard in my life: "How would it feel to be the first BLACK leader of a party in this country?" - I don't know, I've never done it before!" Thatcher would be proud.

[@telbel4979]

Kemi is so intelligent and honest. At last, someone who is willing to acknowledge why we voted against another Tory government. True Conservatives won't flip flop and apologise for their genuine beliefs, regardless of the response from the media and minority, wealthy elites.

[@LukVik]

Intelligent 🤔??? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@RobertWijeyaratnam]

Intelligent, it means there are no more intelligent people in Britain?

[@Lorraine-p4r]

I like kemis laugh. She is the best one I heard so far. She is right about waffle.

[@dianamincher6479]

She wants to force British women to starve whilst pregnant just like they do in Nigeria and Africa which are the super cultures according to her. She delivers crap!

[@BossySwan]

Massively starting to warm towards Kemi

[@RWright-q5e]

She is VERY impressive.

[@So1asola]

@@RWright-q5eshe’s the only one I think has a true chance out of these lot

[@ianinkster2261]

@@So1asola The Tories have a long term brain disease that makes them keep rejecting Kemi

[@LukVik]

🥹😅😂🤣🥲🥱😴

[@josephkennedy5962]

Kemi Badenoch is obviously the Star out of this bunch . I voted Reform and would Consider the Tories if she was the Leader .

[@bobforsyth3995]

Kemi did well I liked a lot of what she said, I do think however she will have to work with Reform

[@constancemasawi2924]

I am so impressed by Kemi

[@jeremiahkerry]

Being a soldier is not a political asset. He never fails to mention his army service.

[@Lorraine-p4r]

Yeah every time Tom Tugganhart mentions, his been a soldier! I am not choosing a Soldier/ veteran soldier!

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

But has Tom Tugendhat served on the culture wars front? I don't think so. Yet winning that war is the most important task on the current cultural and political front.

[@BertWald-wp9pz]

Please Tories, give Kemi the job. She is a breath of fresh air. If she wins I will join.

[@anterosLondon]

Kemi is a breath of fresh air !

[@novacancy7253]

1:01:49 Amazing woman!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@michaels8638]

I do like Tom a lot, it’s a pity to hear the same old economic aims that he admits haven’t worked, the UK economy’s been in decline for 80 years because we’re aiming to follow the US economy, admit we cannot follow the US economy, we don’t have their money or mindset we have to break away from low tax free trade, it only serves the richest companies in the world. We have to understand we’re losing billions in revenue from globalisation and low tax aiming policies, we have to increase tax on the top tier and start taxing companies selling goods in the uk on profits made in the UK, it will ignite growth from lots of UK business opportunities from the companies leaving it. Be a leader and accept huge changes are needed.

[@SamyTheSheep]

The interviewer asks 'How will it feel to be the first black leader of this country?' right after Kemi mentions the obsession with definitions, labels, and boxes. Case in point ! 💙

[@judekelvin4135]

Tom and Kemi are two good people in a way. I love Kemi and find Tom interesting and quite sweet and fresh to politics. Can we go with them both... Conservatives are lucky to have them at the party.

[@williamsnowden8186]

But conservativism is "right-wing" or it is nothing. We had 14 years of😮 non-conservative administrations whose conservativism was a pose. We true conservatives did not vote for those non-conservatives in 2024. "The centre" represents nothing and no-one. The Conservative Party might have been saved by a true conservative like Suella, who was and remains in the CPP a lone voice. William Snowden Ilkley

[@ianinkster2261]

She is right wing!! She just doesn't like the left right framing generally.

[@ianinkster2261]

True conservatives like Suella as not methodical enough to make a difference.

[@williamsnowden8186]

Then, the Conservative Party will be consigned to history and deservedly so. An yet,the gullibility of the public, it seems, knows no bounds...

[@LukVik]

🥹😅😂🤣🥲🥱😴

[@jamesgibson1123]

Get amazon etc to pay some tax??

[@birtlee2078]

Went to the UK last year -so many people living off Government benefits - crazy!

[@REX4340]

Kemi is not out of touch💪

[@LukVik]

Out of brain 🧠🤔???

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

The people of Britain must have a leader who looks British and not someone else is from another country.

[@dyingfree]

Clown!

[@blanctonia]

Love Kemi 🤗

[@Lorraine-p4r]

I do not agree about Abortion/ Termination. It is Murder, should not be a choice.

[@Lorraine-p4r]

All voted for Mays Brino deal!!!!

[@earnestequivocation6250]

Amusing comment on J O’B’s show - If Kemi Badenoch is elected Tory Leader, all Labour MP’s will have to declare it as a gift.

[@timnicholson4387]

I am not convinced with either, candidates, an apology for the 14y just doesn’t cut it. The best option all round benefiting both parties would be the conservatives now merging with Reform. Reform is what the country needs not Conservative platitudes. I have 100% belief in Reform doing what they say on the tin, they will get the job done and restore our Great British values to British people.

[@hkuiper100]

I watched Kemi's interview and there was a question about immigration but not about ILLEGAL immigration which is one of the biggest issues for the voters. The whole leadership battle is a joke!! There's been no Opposition for months!!!

[@dianamincher6479]

No power again for this bunch of adolescents!

[@atommachine]

I would vote for the Transparency Party if it existed !

[@geoffevans3502]

Either way the Tories are toast I vote Reform UK now and I will never go back again.and I am not alone forteen years of treason is quiet enough for me

[@LukVik]

Tories or failed Brexit party 🤔??? 🤢🤮

[@dianamincher6479]

The real deal is Tom!

[@CharlieHowardUK]

Oops

[@MaisyJay-z4y]

Kemi is my hot love❤

[@Lorraine-p4r]

Ukraine should pay for it's own defence.

[@johnjamesflashman6856]

I believe Kemi Badenoch should drop the Kamala cackle it is a real turn off.

[@dyingfree]

Clown!

[@Boogenhagenn]

Tugendhat is the most optical and electable of the four

[@CharlieHowardUK]

This post didnt age well..... lol

[@Boogenhagenn]

@@CharlieHowardUK He'd still do better than either Jenrick or Badenoch in a general election. The Tories have just thrown away the next decade. It's Hague and Duncan Smith all over again.

[@liammears2268]

tugendhat is better

[@Peacenik23-oh1xe]

whos got time to waste watching these two has beens being interviewed

[@goharikjones7387]

I don't think anyone out of these four candidates are a true Conservatives ..out of four i will choose Robert...thats if he is true to what he is saying !! He has more experience in many fields . Good luck to who ever wins. I voted Reform party and will vote Reform in the future.. don't trust Torys any more ! Tory voter here over thirty years !!

[@lautreamont808]

wtf

[@OggyGTA]

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[@just_another32]

@@OggyGTA !!

[@t_chak]

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