Kemi Badenoch delivered a rallying call to Conservative Party members today, declaring Britain’s next general election will be a “battle for the soul of this nation”. Speaking in Birmingham, the Tory rejected calls for any electoral pact with Reform UK, warning Nigel Farage’s political outfit would take the country backwards.She delivered her keynote speech just moments before an internal investigation within Reform UK cleared two senior officials of misconduct after a Channel 4 sting operation sought to expose Mr Farage and associates for illegally accepting foreign donations, although the Metropolitan Police is continuing its criminal investigation into the matter.Mrs Badenoch told delegates at the International Convention Centre: “The circus goes on and on and will never stop because this is who Reform politicians are. “So to those who say ‘Unite the Right’, we are not uniting with that. People deserve better; they deserve better.”Taking aim at “drama queens” who quit the Tories to join Reform UK after losing the 2024 election, Ms Badenoch said: “We deserve better than Reform politicians.“A year ago, those politicians were measuring up the curtains for No10… Now, some of them are measuring up the curtains for their prison cells.”The Opposition leader also said Prime Minister Andy Burnham does not have any feasible answers for the biggest issues facing the nation, saying: “It’s the same old high-tax, high-spend Labour, no common sense, addicted to welfare, drowning our country in debt, choking our economy with taxes, stifling every innovation with regulation.Kemi Badenoch savaged Reform UK at her speech to close the Tory Party conference | GB NEWS“Enough is enough; the country deserves better, and we are going to give them better.”MORE TO FOLLOW