NEW: The Deputy Chair of the Reform group on Cornwall Council, Rowland O’Connor, has quit the party He will now sit as an independent, and says his views on how to help local people ‘increasingly diverged from those of the party’

McFadden tells @TimesRadio the Government does not have a financial target for cutting benefits

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McFadden tells @TimesRadio that slowing the path of net zero would make the U.K. more reliant on foreign energy, that’s a choice the Government has made. He denies U.K. businesses are “taking a hit”… “I think we’re making an investment”.

“It is difficult to see how you could have a deal like this without the United States behind it” Pat McFadden tells @StigAbell, stating that while a Nobel Peace Prize is for the committee itself, Donald Trump “does deserve credit” @TimesRadio

Pat McFadden tells @TimesRadio the Government is “very hopeful” about the Middle East deal and calls it “an enormous moment for the world”. He says “the greatest prize of all” would be a more stable future for the whole region. “We’ve got more hope this morning than we’ve had for

Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: guns might be silenced, hostages might be returned, but will it all hold? And how much credit should Donald Trump take? Plus, Jim Ratcliffe on Net Zero and Man Utd, the benefits of abolishing stamp duty, the rise of strong cider, letters etc

When you bump into the @timesradio breakfast team at 4am on the last night of conference & get outed on the radio by @StigAbell & @KateEMcCann #divadown #CPC25

“May is an important test for Kemi Badenoch” Kevin Hollinrake tells @TimesRadio. He says the announcements being made this week “will shift the polls”.

Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: the last day of Tory conference - we’ll bring you news of economic policies, leadership coups, Thatcher fetishism. Plus, Middle East peace talks, useless humanities (outrageous), hangover sickies, going off grid, steel crisis, integration etc

“You just need the stamina to keep going … if you can’t withstand that you can’t withstand government” Badenoch tells @StigAbell of criticism she gets and of comparisons to Thatcher.

“I am proud of the British empire… that doesn’t mean that everything that happened was good” Badenoch says. “We need to talk about the positives as well as the negatives”. She denies Robert Jenrick was suggesting you have to be white to be British. “He’s talking about

Badenoch tells @TimesRadio she sticks by the pension triple lock - says “we won’t need to worry” about it if we get people into work to pay for it. She says it is not Conservative policy to means test pensions (something one of her team suggested at a fringe event last night)

Tory leader Badenoch tells @StigAbell that students attending pro-Palestine rallies at universities today should NOT lose their places (something her colleague Robert Jenrick has supported) and says we should focus on what is said and not just the fact that protests exist.

NEW: Kemi Badenoch tells @TimesRadio it’s “slightly heartbreaking” that her children tell her they wish she worked at McDonald’s because they would see her more (and get a free burger!) - she admits she’s making a sacrifice but states clearly she wants to be PM and is up for it.

Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: the excitement is palpable. I’m live from Tory Conference, currently an empty railway station. Kemi Badenoch will be with me. Kate back home in London. So, is it right, is it “unBritish”, to attend a pro-Palestinian protest on October 7th?

No point in taking a photo as it never translates but go outside and have a look at the moon, it’s a beauty tonight 🌙

“I can’t see what would be in it for Reform.” An ‘informal alliance’ between Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch is unlikely, but not impossible, says The Sunday Times’s Gabriel Pogrund. Listen to @Gabriel_Pogrund on The State of It, wherever you get your podcasts. @KateEMcCann

Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: can you police your way to a more integrated country? We’ll look at free speech and security. Plus, can the Tories get a hearing from anybody, is tracking your family members acceptable, Brits picking fruit, Meghan in Paris, Andrew Neil etc

Any idea what a 'Flight Fillow' is? I'll be explaining how it can cut the cost of your holiday flights this bank holiday, on @timesradio with @KateEMcCann and @StigAbell at 9:40 this morning. Do tune in.

Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: new asylum policy, reducing automatic rights to bring family. Will it work, is it right? Plus middle-class shoplifting, banned doctors still working, Tories and energy, illicit climbers, future of non-fiction, fat jabs, badass Princess Anne etc