Ahead of laying out a platform of tax cuts aimed at affluent Britons at her party’s annual convention, opposition leader Kemi Badenoch told journalists: “We are going back to the authentic Conservative Party that people knew and loved.”

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to more than halve the number of people paying the UK’s inheritance tax, as she seeks to re-establish the opposition party’s tax-cutting credentials and draw clearer lines with Labour and Reform UK.