Kemi Badenoch put her faltering leadership campaign back on track with a powerful speech to end the Tory conference.

Kemi Badenoch has claimed young Conservatives are marked down at university because of their personal politics. Speaking at the end of the annual Tory conference, the leadership candidate told party delegates that the younger generation are “afraid to share their politics” out of fear their peers will attack them or lecturers will mark them down.

Kemi Badenoch has been running her leadership campaign from the home of a wealthy Tory donor, it has been revealed.

Tory leadership frontrunners Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch are scoring “own goals” hitting their campaigns to succeed Rishi Sunak, according to a senior parliamentarian. Leading Conservative pollster Lord Hayward stressed their campaigns were “stuttering” at the party’s annual rally in Birmingham which was leaving the leadership contest wide open with James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat able to build momentum.

Kemi Badenoch blanked all journalists after her final speech at the Conservative Party conference today and just hurried away from the press pack. The Tory leadership candidate was the last of the four remaining contenders hoping to replace Rishi Sunak to speak to the party faithful on the last day of the annual gathering.

Tory leadership candidates pitch to members in final conference speeches. Conservative leadership candidates reflected on their general election defeat in their final speeches at the party's conference.