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Badenoch: I will earn voter trust and 'thought through' policy

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Badenoch: I will earn voter trust and 'thought through' policy

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has insisted she will not be rushed into policy positions, claiming there is no "quick fix" following the party's defeat in July's general election.Badenoch became the party's sixth leader in less than nine years when she was elected at the start of November.In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said the public "kicked out" the Conservatives because the party was not trusted and did not deliver, adding building trust is "something that takes a while".Badenoch also dismissed concerns that her approach of not pinning down policy positions could leave a vacuum that might be filled by Reform UK.Speaking to Amol Rajan, Badenoch said: "Reform is saying stuff because it hasn't thought it all through. You can give easy answers if you haven't thought it all through."I do the thinking and what people are going to get with new leadership under me is thoughtful Conservatism, not knee-jerk analysis.""We are about what we are for, not just what we are against," she said earlier in the interview.

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