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Kemi Badenoch promises to abolish Stamp Duty. Is it enough to save her job?

Oct 8, 2025
42 mins

Episode Description

To rapturous applause and a full throated national anthem, Kemi Badenoch delivered the speech that may just have saved her job.

She promised to end stamp duty, abolish VAT on private schools and scrap farmers inheritance tax. She will also ban doctors from striking, cancel university courses she doesn’t rate, and dismantle the structure of Britains human rights protection.

Will this move the dial for a party struggling to make its voice heard? Emily, Lewis and Jon discuss from inside and outside the conference hall. And we talk to John Glen - Kemi’s right hand man in parliament.

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