Transport secretary and deputy PM back former chancellor as two other senior Tories back foreign secretary
Badenoch says state should be smaller and do less, instead of pandering to 'every campaigner with moving message'contest, but she is probably the one with most appeal to ideological rightwingers. Reading the speech she gave at her campaign launch, which was at the Institute for Government at the same time as Rishi Sunak’s, it is not hard to see why. Here are the main points.
She cited cutting the number of young people going to university, cutting support staff and extra-curricular activities in schools and stopping the police from investigating hate crime online as examples of how the state could save money.We are now taxing and spending more on government than we have ever done and yet people’s satisfaction with the quality of their day-to-day services is falling. This is not sustainable.
We must require schools to concentrate on effective whole-class teaching of rigorous subjects rather than allocating tight resources to superfluous support staff and peripheral activities.
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