Kemi Badenoch described Reform UK as “woke” as she again ruled out a deal with Nigel Farage’s party.
The Conservative leader told the Political Currency podcast she would make no pact with Reform either before or after the next election.
Asked why she would not support an agreement, she said she did not want the public to be “confused about what this Conservative Party stands for”.
She said: “Reform are a woke party, and I know a lot of people don’t understand, the word woke is used to mean many things, a lot of people assume it’s a left-wing thing.
“But when I talk about woke, I talk about people who, it’s all grievance, it’s victim narratives, people are doing this to us, oppressor narratives, this is the oppressor class.
“On the left it’s whites are the oppressors or men are the oppressors, on the right it’s the establishment are the oppressors, look at what they’re doing to us.
“It’s all moaning and whingeing and not proper solutions. It’s about power dynamics and how to get power, not actually solutions and how to fix things.”
Describing a deal as a “non-starter”, she said: “I don’t see how I could possibly have people like that in some form of coalition.”
Current polling suggests that an election held today would lead to a hung parliament, with no party securing enough seats to form a majority on its own.
But Mrs Badenoch has consistently ruled out doing a deal with Mr Farage to “unite the right”.
The Tory leader told Political Currency: “I’m not trying to unite the right, I’m trying to unite the country. You can’t run the country with just one half of it.”
Mr Farage has also previously denied that he would form an electoral pact with the Conservatives, after reports he told donors he thinks an agreement between them is inevitable.
In an attempt to shut down speculation, Mr Farage declared “the Conservatives will no longer be a national party” after the May 2026 local elections.
He said: “Sometimes people hear what they want to. After next May, the Conservatives will no longer be a national party.
“I would never do a deal with a party that I do not trust. No deals, just a reverse takeover.”
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