Badenoch condones Tories forming pacts with Reform UK if necessary to take control of councils – UK politics live
Conservative party leader says ‘we end up with various coalitions at local level’ as she suggests councillors could do deals with Reform
Kemi Badenoch is often quite a tetchy interviewee, and on BBC Breakfast this morning things got a bit awkward when the presenters, Naga Munchetty and Charlie Steyt, asked her if she had watched the Netflix TV drama Adolescence yet.
In a previous interview earlier this month, asked about the series, Badenoch got into trouble because she ended up spouting a conspiracy theory. She did not do that today, but she did say she still has not watched the show, adding: “I probably won’t.”
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