Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury Gareth Davies insists the Conservative Party “will not be entering into a pact” with Reform UK but will “win back the centre-right vote” at the next General Election. In an audio recording obtained by Sky News, Robert Jenrick can be heard saying that he wants the "fight" against Sir Keir Starmer's party to be "united". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Kemi Bainnock has been clear, she's the leader of our party, and she's been clear that we will not be entering into a pact or any kind of agreement with reform.
00:07We don't believe we need to. We have time to be able to put forward a policy platform to win back those votes, and that's exactly what we intend to do.
00:16Robert Jenrick has been very clear that we need to win back the centre-right vote that we lost in the last election.
00:21He's doing a great job to hold Labour to account and win that vote back.
00:24He's been clear that we need to win back the conservative centre-right vote.
00:28Kemi Bainnock, who is the leader, has been clear that's not going to involve a pact.
00:33It's about having a clear policy platform. We've got a very strong team, of which Robert is a part, and that's what we're going to be putting forward to the electorate years from now.
00:43But also next week at the local government elections, where we've been clear that we will, in local authorities, reduce council taxes.
00:51We'll collect the bins, that will be refreshing in Birmingham, and we'll repair roads better than any other party.
00:57Reform have never run anything before. They're completely untested.
01:00I'm not entirely sure what their policy platform is for local government.
01:04We'll see how it goes, but our candidates are working very hard to ensure that next week we continue to run local authorities up and down the country.
01:11Thank you very much.
01:15So.
01:17Thank you very much, sir.
01:27ho.