Kemi Badenoch's speech to the Confederation of British Industry
"How do you know whether a politician is actually going to do what it is they say they'll do? You can only look back on their track record. Making promises is easy but if you really want to know what someone is going to be like, look at what they did when they had the chance. I'm speaking to all of you today not just as leader of the Conservative Party, but as a former business secretary. Many of you would heard me talk about how we needed to deregulate and you would have seen examples of how I tried to lift the burden off businesses often arguing with other parts of Government or trying to stop them bringing in yet more well-meaning but burdensome regulation. I saw myself in that role as your champion around the Cabinet table. It is because I know that it is not government that creates growth. It is business. Government often needs to get out of the way. But this is a very diff...