ANALYSIS: The Conservative leader is scoring points against Starmer and Reeves but to triumph she needs to convince the country she will be a better PM than Nigel Farage

Badenoch goes on to say the Tories left him the fastest growing economy in the G7 and says jobs and growth are down, mortgage rates up and business confidence down. She asks if the country can afford four more years of Starmer's "terrible" judgement.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was pressed to rule out any new tax rises this year by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. He did not explicitly rule out more tax rises.

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