Within the next few minutes, the former Cabinet Minister Kemi badenoch will try to win over her fellow conservative mps as she launches campaign to become leader of The Party. The shadow Communities Secretary is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the conservatives defeat atjuly s election. Shes among six candidates vying for thejob, with rival James Cleverly also due to kickstart his campaign at 12. Henry hill is speaking at the moment. Just in the lead up to introducing Kemi Badenoch. Kemi badenoch a former Business Secretary and very close ally of michael gove. The former Tory Mp talking at the moment. You can get a sense of what Kemi Badenoch s campaign will be based on. You can see it on the writing just behind on the wall, to the right of the screen. She says it is all about renewal. We understand she is going to be saying, there is no point the conservatives pointing at labour. They need to do something for themselves. Robertjenrick On Sunday also launched
Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida