'You Have No Idea!' Kemi Badenoch Hits Back At Laura Kuenssberg Over Tories' Dreadful Polling

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e23fcb180000c44e5d117d.jpeg?cache=ZZo42tdtw2&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Laura Kuenssberg and Kemi Badenoch" data-caption="Laura Kuenssberg and Kemi Badenoch" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="BBC Laura Kuenssberg" />Laura Kuenssberg and Kemi Badenoch</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/kemi-badenoch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kemi Badenoch </a>angrily hit back at <a href="news/laura-kuenssberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Laura Kuenssberg</a> this morning over the <a href="news/conservative-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tories</a>’ poor performance in the polls.</p><p><a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/voting-intention" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">According to YouGov research from mid-September,</a> just 16% of the public said they would be willing to vote Conservative – a shocking decline from a party that were in power 15 months ago.</p><p>There’s also been an exodus of former Tory ministers joining Reform, including one of Badenoch’s <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-shadow-minister-defects-to-reform-uk_uk_68c7e5f8e4b081f17e8e244c">own frontbenchers in the shadow cabinet, Danny Kruger.</a></p><p>But, speaking on the first day of the Conservatives’ annual conference in Manchester, Badenoch tried to downplay criticism that she needed to do more to help her party. </p><p>The BBC’s Kuenssberg tried to bring up the topic by saying: “While you have been working out exactly what you wanted to do, the Conservative Party’s position – which was already dread