Kemi Badenoch and her husband, Hamish Badenoch, after her speech at the Conservative Party's conference in Manchester. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch promised to rebuild her party’s reputation on the economy in her conference speech on Wednesday, with a new “golden rule” on debt reduction.
Three years after former Conservative Party prime minister Liz Truss was blamed for crashing Britain’s finances, Ms Badenoch told delegates that half of every pound saved in spending cuts would go on reducing the UK’s towering national debt.
“Every pound we save will be put to work,” said Ms Badenoch, who promised that the rest would be used to fund tax
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