Badenoch says Tories could not form pact with Reform UK because they’re too ‘problematic’ – UK politics live

Conservative leader suggests making a deal amid scandals surrounding Farage’s party could derail the reputational clean-up of her own partyTim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference next week in his cover story for the Spectator. He says:Labour special advisers summoned last week to the pillared state room on the first floor of No. 10 to hear the plan for conference from Burnham’s political secretary, Hayden Munro, left in no doubt that the PM wants to be a transformational figure. The conference ‘narrative’ these advisers were urged to push includes the telling line: ‘This