Kemi Badenoch directly addresses GB News viewers' concerns as she promises: 'Britain is not broken beyond repair!'

Mrs Badenoch responded: "Britain is not broken beyond repair. But there are a lot of things that aren’t working.

"We have a plan to fix them, but what we’re not doing is just pointing out, 'oh, this is broken, that’s broken.' A lot of the people pointing that out don’t have plans to fix it.

"Some of them were even the ones who broke things in the first place and have now run away, pretending it had nothing to do with them.

"The people in my party, the people who want to fix these things, under my leadership, and guided by Conservative principles and values, we are getting there. That’s why we’ve been able to announce a lot of great policies that I know your viewers will love.

"Leaving the ECHR, controlling our borders, scrapping business rates on the high street, who’s out there fighting for jobs?

"Who’s out there fighting for farmers? Who’s out there fighting for veterans?

"It’s Conservatives, day in and day out. Meanwhile, all the other people are spending their time on telly talking about everything that’s wrong.

"They’re not actually doing the work that’s going to fix the problem."

Mrs Badenoch also addressed the defection of Suella Braverman to Reform UK earlier this week.

The Tories released a statement after the news broke, which they later retracted, that that included the line: “The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy.”

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Addressing this Mrs Badenoch told the People's Channel: "It was a mistake that was sent out in error. It should not have been said at all. As soon as I found out, I had it retracted, and the person who sent it out has been spoken to.

"These are not the sort of things that represent the values of my party, and changing the culture of the party is something that we are actively doing.

"Occasionally, people will get things wrong, but I want people to see that when we do something wrong, we acknowledge it, we say sorry, and we try to fix it.

"Keir Starmer, by contrast, doesn’t think he does anything wrong."

At a press conference earlier today, Mrs Badenoch claimed Tory defectors who had joined Reform UK were having a “tantrum dressed up as politics”.

She said: "When my kids have a tantrum, I don't give up or change my mind, I send them to their room and I say to everyone else if that tantrum ever found its way into government we would all pay the price."

Speaking alongside her new party leader, Nigel Farage, on Monday, Mrs Braverman said the Conservative Party had “left the building” and no longer represented the values she believed it did when she joined the Tories.

“Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well. Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe," she said.