Kemi Badenoch is seeking to set out a new Tory policy agenda – but she will face fights on several fronts at her first Conservative Party conference since she took over as leader this week.

She used the lead-up to the gathering to unveil punchy policies, including a promise to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and to abolish climate change targets if her party won an election.

But this may not have been enough to assuage her critics. The party remains third in the polls behind Labour and Reform UK – and there is backroom plotting to replace her with Robert Jenrick, who came second to her in last year’s leadership race. New Feature

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