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Badenoch fears local polls will be 'extremely' tough for Tories
Daily Express
|March 21, 2025
THE Tories face "extremely difficult" council elections in May, party leader Kemi Badenoch warned yesterday.
She also insisted politics is not showbusiness and "you will have to live with what you vote for" in a swipe at Reform leader Nigel Farage.
Voters in a number of county councils and unitary authorities in England will go to the polls on May 1.
The town hall ballots come after the Tories suffered a devastating general election defeat last July and have since been overtaken in opinion polls by Reform.
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