I CAN CLEAN UP THE ALMIGHTY MESS AS NEXT PM

Kemi Badenoch says only the Tories can take the 'tough decisions' Britain needs, attacks 'dangerous' Labour and warns Nigel Farage would 'blow up the economy'

- By Sam Lister

KEMI Badenoch has insisted she is the only politician with the "backbone" to be honest with UK voters in a fierce attack on opponents.

She claimed that Sir Keir Starmer's "dangerous" Labour will "leave an almighty mess for us to clear up" - but Nigel Farage as PM would be even worse as he would "blow up the economy".

The Tory leader vowed that she will be the next Prime Minister, with Mrs Badenoch telling our weekday news show the Daily Expresso: "Everybody keeps talking like there's an election tomorrow, but we've got Labour for another four years.

"Look at the mess they've made after that first year. There's still more to come, I'm afraid.

"They're going to leave an almighty mess for us to clean up." She added: "And it doesn't matter whether it's with Starmer or Burnham or Rayner or whoever, they're all the same." The Leader of the Opposition hit out at Labour for failing to understand "where money comes from and how to grow an economy", saying: "They've never run a business, they never hired people, they are just, you know, people who spend everybody else's money.

"And so they don't understand how to run the country. That's what really worries me...Starmer in particular because it's not just that he's a socialist, it's also that he is weak.

"He can't even get his backbenches to do minor things like, you know, teeny weeny cuts in welfare. He can't do that." Mrs Badenoch admitted that her own party had lost its way in its final years in government, but stressed that the Tories are now "back on track".

She has suffered some high-profile defections from her party to Reform recently, including Danny Kruger, the first MP to switch sides on her watch.

But she insisted "there's a huge, huge difference between us and Reform. We are a team.