Emma Barnett interviewing Kemi Badenoch on Today

Kemi Badenoch clashed with Emma Barnett repeatedly this morning over the Tories’ response to Labour’s spending review as the Conservative leader refused to offer up any of her party’s own economic plans.

The Tories have laid into the government’s spending review after it announced how it was going to spend an extra £300 billion across the NHS, net zero and the defence department.

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride claimed it was “not worth the paper that it was written on” and predicted taxes will have to go up in the autumn Budget to pay for it.

So on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, presenter Barnett asked the leader of the opposition what kind of economic policy the Tories would run with instead.

Badenoch just said: “We wouldn’t have made these errors in the first place.

“What’s happening is Labour has made a mess and people are asking us exactly how we would have cleaned it up – we wouldn’t have made the mess in the first place.”

“Well it’s pretty early to say it’s their mess when you were in power for as long as you were,” Barnett hit back,........

© HuffPost