"I like your stuff… scientist, business person… Get together with Nige," he said, to which the Tory leader laughed and replied: "Nice to meet you, and thank you for that."
“He really liked what I did. It’s very clear that there’s some people who just don’t want to see Labour in government any more, and some of them think that working with other parties is the way to do it. That is not the way to do it.”
She added that voters are not often telling her to team up with another party.
"That was a surprise, having someone on the doorstep asking me to team up with another party. It's usually journalists who are asking me about teaming up with Reform. It is a non-starter. We are the Conservative Party."
"A lot of the people who caused the problems in the Conservative Party have actually gone to Reform. Nigel Farage is doing my spring-cleaning," Mrs Badenoch added.
The visit also saw her speak to High Street businesses about the party’s “cheap power plan”, which involves rolling back green energy rules and relying more on oil and gas.
Being in Rickmansworth, Badenoch particularly took aim at the Liberal Democrats who run its Three Rivers District Council and labelled the continued lack of a local plan “pathetic”.
She claimed the party ended up in charge on the county level “accidentally” after Reform acted as a “spoiler” in the 2025 vote. She has apparently heard “constant talk about potholes and just how they were wholly unprepared for the responsibility” today as a result.
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