Kemi Badenoch pledges to make oil and gas ‘cornerstone’ of UK economy

Hitting out at her rivals, Ms Badenoch will say in her speech that Reform, led by Nigel Farage, want “part-nationalisation” of the sector, claiming this would mean “the government and politicians running our oil and gas fields, taking us back to the bad old days of the 1970s when the government controlled British industries, running them into the ground”.