Kemi Badenoch hit back after comments made in a Shadow Cabinet meeting were leaked (Image: Getty)
Kemi Badenoch has said there was “too much nodding along in the room and arguments outside it” in the previous Tory government.
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The former business secretary slammed the leaking of a Shadow Cabinet meeting yesterday as a “shame”.
The shadow housing secretary said the D-Day debacle cost Tory colleagues their seats, while many in the party had failed to grasp the “enormity” of their defeat.
She also used the first meeting of top Tories to tear into former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s campaign.
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Mrs Badenoch had accused Ms Braverman of having a “very public” nervous breakdown. But Ms Braverman hit back at her critics as “liberals” having a “meltdown”.
But Mrs Badenoch, a Conservative leadership hopeful, slammed the leak this afternoon.
She said: “It’s a shame our discussions in Shadow Cabinet were leaked yesterday. If there is no private space to discuss our party's challenges, we will never fully address what the electorate told us last week.
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“The views of those outside these meetings matter too. Not just backbench MPs, but our party activists, members and friends who lost seats after giving everything to the campaign.
“In government, we had too much nodding along in the room and arguments outside it. That culture needs to change. We need to be honest with one another in private, and united in the direction we take afterwards.”
Mrs Braverman said she ould be "interested" in knowing whether Ms Badenoch "thinks I’m having a 'very public nervous breakdown'.
Mrs Badenoch said on Tuesday that Mr Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on “unconstitutional”.
Mr Sunak apologised for the devastating election loss and said he took full responsibility.
A source told The Times they were surprised by the way Mrs Badenoch had "ripped into" the ex-premier after his apology.
Mrs Badenoch also used the meeting to speak of the importance of Shadow Cabinet discussions not being leaked.
But the content of the discussions were given to a newspaper anyway.
Shadow home secretary James Cleverly has called for party unity as he warned against "bitter infighting and finger-pointing".
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He said: “We must get our act together. We need to unite in order to deliver. It will take humility and hard work, to recover our reputation for competence and integrity, to rebuild trust in our party, and unite behind a broad platform that will give people a reason to vote Conservative again.
“We must do this, for the sake of our party and country, so we can put ourselves in the best possible position to win the next general election and once again deliver for the British people.”
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