"And that has made the government agenda into a shopping list of disconnected, unworkable and unsustainable policies."

"One of my heroes is the American thinker Thomas Sowell, who said that 'if you want to be help people, then them the truth; if you want to help yourself, then them what they want to hear.'  The Prime Minister should tell the truth, because the truth will set us free. The problems run deep....

    "The underlying economic problems we face have been exacerbated by Covid and by war. But what makes the situation worse is that the answers to our problems ... haven't been articulated or delivered in a way appropriate to the modern age. We have been in the grip of an underlying economic, social, cultural and intellectual malaise. The right has lost its confidence and courage and ability to defend the free market as the fairest way of helping people prosper. It has been undermined by a willingness to embrace protectionism for special interests. It's been undermined by retreating in the face of the Ben and Jerry's tendency, those who say a business's main priority is social justice, not productivity and profits, and it's been undermined by the actions of crony capitalists, who collude with big bureaucracy to rig the system in favour of incumbents against entrepreneurs. The truth that limited government – doing less for better – is the best way to restore faith in government has been forgotten, as we've piled into pressure groups and caved in to every campaigner with a moving message. And that has made the government agenda into a shopping list of disconnected, unworkable and unsustainable policies."

~ UK Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch -- composite quote from her launch speech and launch announcement