Kemi Badenoch: Farage would use state power to target his opponents

Tory leader warns of ‘authoritarian’ Reform at event where she also defended her party’s plan to cut housing benefit Reform UK’s decision to ban some journalists from its conference shows that Nigel Farage would use state power to target opponents and be authoritarian in government, Kemi Badenoch...

Source: [Guardian Politics](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/03/kemi-badenoch-farage-state-power-reform)