Kemi Badenoch admits Tory failures on Brexit, immigration and Net Zero in her TODAY speech – as she pledges to ‘tell voters the truth’

Kemi Badenoch will today admit Tory failures on Brexit, immigration and Net Zero in a keynote speech.

The Tory leader will expose “mistakes” while promising to be “honest” with Brits about the problems facing the country.

Ms Badenoch is fighting to restore the party’s fortunes after a disastrous election saw Keir Starmer secure a massive majority.

Reform has also emerged as a major threat, with polls suggesting support for Nigel Farage’s party is increasing.

In her first major speech of the year, Ms Badenoch will pledge a frank approach, just days after being criticized for blaming the grooming gang crisis on ‘peasants’ from ‘sub-communities’ in foreign countries .

Stressing that the Conservatives are under new leadership, Ms Badenoch will say: “Over the next four years and beyond, we will tell the truth to the British people, even if it is difficult to hear.

“The truth about the mistakes we have made, the truth about the problems we face, and the truth about the actions we must take to get out of this mess.”

In a frank assessment of what went wrong under her predecessors – from David Cameron to Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – Ms Badenoch will say: “We announced we would leave the European Union before having a growth plan. outside the EU.

“We passed a law that we were going to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And only then did we start thinking about how we could get there.

“We announced that we were going to reduce immigration, but it continued to increase.

“These mistakes were made because we told people what they wanted to hear first and then tried to find a solution later.”

“This will stop under my watch. If we want to turn our country around, we are going to have to say things that are not easy to hear.

Speaking to GB News earlier this week, the Conservative leader said it was important to examine the backgrounds of those involved in the grooming gang scandal.

She suggested that these were “people from a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off even from the country of origin that they might have been in.”