Kemi Badenoch

It is very clear that there is an axis of authoritarian states that are collaborating against the West. You see it with the North Koreans in Russia. You see it with China and Iran. There is collusion taking place. We know this. And yet we, at this point, have just lost our confidence.

It is very clear that there is an axis of authoritarian states that are collaborating against the West. You see it with the North Koreans in Russia. You see it with China and Iran. There is collusion taking place. We know this. And yet we, at this point, have just lost our confidence.

And I think that the UK has an important role to play in bringing back so much of that moral courage and confidence that the West needs.

And I think that the UK has an important role to play in bringing back so much of that moral courage and confidence that the West needs.

And I think that the UK has an important role to play in bringing back so much of that moral courage and confidence that the West needs.

No, I haven't, although I am a big fan of his. I thought X got better. I still call it Twitter, to be honest. I thought it got better in many ways after he took over. It got worse in a lot of ways, but I think overall it is better. And he, you know, community notes. It's an amazing invention. It just made so many things. So I think he brought lots of innovation and I'm a big fan of his.

No, I haven't, although I am a big fan of his. I thought X got better. I still call it Twitter, to be honest. I thought it got better in many ways after he took over. It got worse in a lot of ways, but I think overall it is better. And he, you know, community notes. It's an amazing invention. It just made so many things. So I think he brought lots of innovation and I'm a big fan of his.

No, I haven't, although I am a big fan of his. I thought X got better. I still call it Twitter, to be honest. I thought it got better in many ways after he took over. It got worse in a lot of ways, but I think overall it is better. And he, you know, community notes. It's an amazing invention. It just made so many things. So I think he brought lots of innovation and I'm a big fan of his.

But what he is doing with Doge is actually something I've been talking about for a long time. And I call it the rise of the bureaucratic class. This is my productivity thesis. If you look at the middle class in the UK 30, 40, 50 years ago, it was people who made things, people who drew things, people who built things as farmers. It's builders, small businessmen made good.

But what he is doing with Doge is actually something I've been talking about for a long time. And I call it the rise of the bureaucratic class. This is my productivity thesis. If you look at the middle class in the UK 30, 40, 50 years ago, it was people who made things, people who drew things, people who built things as farmers. It's builders, small businessmen made good.

But what he is doing with Doge is actually something I've been talking about for a long time. And I call it the rise of the bureaucratic class. This is my productivity thesis. If you look at the middle class in the UK 30, 40, 50 years ago, it was people who made things, people who drew things, people who built things as farmers. It's builders, small businessmen made good.

You can see the productivity. You can see what they are doing that is actually adding value to society. The middle class now has changed. It has become a lot more bureaucratic. And we are producing more and more people from universities who are going into a bureaucratic job rather than a genuine producing job where you're adding value.

You can see the productivity. You can see what they are doing that is actually adding value to society. The middle class now has changed. It has become a lot more bureaucratic. And we are producing more and more people from universities who are going into a bureaucratic job rather than a genuine producing job where you're adding value.

You can see the productivity. You can see what they are doing that is actually adding value to society. The middle class now has changed. It has become a lot more bureaucratic. And we are producing more and more people from universities who are going into a bureaucratic job rather than a genuine producing job where you're adding value.

And that, I think, is why the growth is reducing at the same time as we're facing increased competition from other countries that are not spending a lot of time on bureaucracy. The EU is the classic of this genre. It's all about pumping out regulation. So I remember... meeting a guy just after COVID who owned a string of hotels. And I said, business must have been really bad. How have you coped?

And that, I think, is why the growth is reducing at the same time as we're facing increased competition from other countries that are not spending a lot of time on bureaucracy. The EU is the classic of this genre. It's all about pumping out regulation. So I remember... meeting a guy just after COVID who owned a string of hotels. And I said, business must have been really bad. How have you coped?

And that, I think, is why the growth is reducing at the same time as we're facing increased competition from other countries that are not spending a lot of time on bureaucracy. The EU is the classic of this genre. It's all about pumping out regulation. So I remember... meeting a guy just after COVID who owned a string of hotels. And I said, business must have been really bad. How have you coped?

And he said, Kemi, believe it or not, I have never made so much money in my life. And I said, how? And he said, because my hotels are full of asylum seekers. That is not real productivity. That is living off government. Yes, it's private sector, but it's government work. When I did a whole bunch of scrapping of corporate regulations, do you know who complained? KPMG.

And he said, Kemi, believe it or not, I have never made so much money in my life. And I said, how? And he said, because my hotels are full of asylum seekers. That is not real productivity. That is living off government. Yes, it's private sector, but it's government work. When I did a whole bunch of scrapping of corporate regulations, do you know who complained? KPMG.

And he said, Kemi, believe it or not, I have never made so much money in my life. And I said, how? And he said, because my hotels are full of asylum seekers. That is not real productivity. That is living off government. Yes, it's private sector, but it's government work. When I did a whole bunch of scrapping of corporate regulations, do you know who complained? KPMG.