Amol Rajan and Kemi Badenoch on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

Amol Rajan seemed rather stunned by Kemi Badenoch’s approach to leading the Conservative Party in a tense interview this morning.

The Tory leader is on the campaign trail ahead of the local elections on May 1, where her party is widely expected to lose hundreds of seats to Reform UK.

So the presenter for BBC Radio 4′s Today programme asked how she would assess her performance as Tory leader nearly six months after she took on the job.

Badenoch said the biggest difference is the impact she’s had on Tory rows and in-fighting, adding “all of that’s gone” under her leadership.

Rajan replied with incredulity: “All of that’s gone?”

Badenoch replied: “Well, look at what the papers were saying last year. The divisions on all sorts of policy areas,........

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