Kemi Badenoch tries to brush off the string of defections

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00:00We had a historic defeat last year. It's going to take time to come back from that.

00:04But what I'm doing is making sure people understand what conservatism is again.

00:08But if this was like football, Mrs Baden-Ock, you need to look across to Old Trafford,

00:13of the Manchester, the manager of Manchester United, Ruben Amurin,

00:17who keeps saying, give me time, give me time, and keeps losing matches.

00:20You're losing councillors, you're losing support, you're losing members,

00:24and you want more time. You are the Ruben Amurin of politics, Mrs Baden-Ock.

00:27Well, that is certainly not the case.

00:31What we are doing is shedding a lot of the baggage of the last 14 years.

00:36I remember last year we had people defecting to Labour because Labour was doing well in the polls.

00:41Now we have people defecting to reform because the reform is doing well in the polls.

00:45We need people who are in our party for the right reasons.