Kemi Badenoch promises to abolish Stamp Duty. Is it enough to save her job?
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
To rapturous applause and a full throated national anthem, Kemi Badenoch delivered the speech that may just have saved her job.
She promised to end stamp duty, abolish VAT on private schools and scrap farmers inheritance tax. She will also ban doctors from striking, cancel university courses she doesn’t rate, and dismantle the structure of Britains human rights protection.
Will this move the dial for a party struggling to make its voice heard? Emily, Lewis and Jon discuss from inside and outside the conference hall. And we talk to John Glen - Kemi’s right hand man in parliament.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | We've just emerged blinking into the sunlight from the darkness of the conference hall, |
| 0:17.9 | where Kemi Badock just finished making her speech. |
| 0:20.6 | She had the crowds in there on their feet. |
| 0:23.0 | She delivered everything that they were hoping she would. |
| 0:26.6 | A return to something that sounded like a purer form of conservatism, |
| 0:30.8 | even more Thatcherite in its outlook. |
| 0:33.5 | It was all about the economy. |
| 0:35.1 | She promised an end to stamp duty under a new Conservative government. |
| 0:40.2 | She promised to stop doctors from striking |
| 0:43.1 | and to end what she would think of as Mickey Mouse University courses. |
| 0:47.8 | She didn't spell out which. |
| 0:49.4 | Earlier in the week, she announced that the Conservatives would leave the ECHR |
| 0:53.5 | and abandon the Human Rights Act. Somewhere, she needs that the Conservatives would leave the ECHR and abandon the Human Rights Act. |
| 0:56.2 | Somewhere, she needs to make headlines. She needs to move the dial. Has this speech done what she |
| 1:02.6 | needed to do? Welcome to the news agents. The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. It's Emily. And Emily The News Agents. |
| 1:11.6 | It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:12.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:13.9 | And Emily, if you're only listening to this, is sitting in front of a picture of Margaret Thatcher, both Maitless and Thatcher addressed in blue. |
| 1:24.3 | Of course. |
| 1:24.6 | The two iron ladies of British politics there together. But of course it was another |
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