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Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch says
['Olivia Barber']
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‘Moving the Overton window past the edge of a cliff… Ta, Kemi!’Tory leader Kemi Badenoch officially declared that centrist ideas are no longer welcome in her party in a speech yesterday.
Her remarks come days after the former West Midlands mayor Andy Street and former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson launched Prosper UK, an organisation aimed at those on the centre-right who feel “politically homeless”.
Badenoch instead told those uncomfortable with the rightward direction she is taking the party that they “need to get out of the way”.
At the same time, the Tory leader said she welcomed any help that could win her party an election.
However, she ruled out entertaining any policies that are not based around her right-leaning ideas.