The Tory leadership contender tore into Labour’s record over the past three months as she took on Angela Rayner.
Kemi Badenoch exclaimed “oh dear” in the Commons this afternoon as she recounted Labour’s first 100 days in the power and the chaos presided over by Keir Starmer.
Standing to oppose Angela Rayner’s renters rights reforms, the Tory leadership contender congratulated her Labour opponent for reaching 100 days in the job, joking: “As the Rt. Hon Lady says, it’s the week in which Labour reaches 100 days in office. And they are to be congratulated.”
“Not everybody gets to 100 days – Sue Gray didn’t.”
One Tory MP was heard heckling: “It seems longer!”
Ms Badenoch tore into the Government, accusing them of “noisy infighting and chaos resulting in the hurried reset we saw over the weekend.”
Ms Badenoch mocked Angela Rayner’s rental reform plans (Image: Parliament Live)
In her position as shadow housing secretary, she warned that Ms Rayner’s plans to clobber landlords with unbearable red tape will only lead to “more chaos”.
She explained: “The first time we faced each other across the despatch box, I warned the Rt Hon lady she was being stitched up by the PM and the Chancellor”
“As she brings this bill, I know her department is already breaking promises of its own. It promised a new national planning policy framework within 100 days, there is no new framework, just a consultation as I predicted the last time that we had a debate on this subject.”
“To be fair they have finally produced this renters’ rights bill, after copying and pasting quite a lot of what we had – and yet it is still not ready.”
Ms Badenoch warned that Labour cannot fix the rental market by tying it in knots with further interventions and directives.
Angela Rayner looked disgusted as Kemi Badenoch tore into her (Image: Parliament Live)
She predicted that the Bill will not work, as has been proven with similar measures north of the border in Scotland, and will make the housing market worse for renters.
The bullish Tory warned the Deputy Prime Minister that No10 will take the glory today and let Ms Rayner clean up the policy’s mess in the coming months and years.
Ms Badenoch will find out whether she’s in the final two Tory leadership candidates at 3.30 this afternoon.
She faces a tight race for second place against fellow right-winger Robert Jenrick.
