Speaking at a recent interview with The Independent’s Editor-in-Chief, Geordie Greig, British Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch said Trump deserved the defeat he got at the recently concluded US midterm elections.
“Yeah. He has not been acting in the way that I would consider conservative”, Badenoch said.
The conservative leader was responding to questions on the midterm elections, and Trump’s handling of the Iran war, trade policies and treatment of allies.
Badenoch described Trump’s electoral setback as “entirely self-inflicted” and condemned what she called his “dirty” style of politics.
The Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, flipping at least seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts in a major setback for Trump’s Republican Party.
Badenoch criticized Trump’s tariffs, threats towards Canada and Greenland, and disputes with US allies, saying his actions contradicted conservative principles of free markets and better trade.
“Where is the push for free markets and better trade… rather than protectionism, America first, the squabbling with allies? That’s not what conservatives do,” she said.
The conservative leader did not leave out Trump’s personal attacks on journalists and political figures, saying his conduct fell below the standards expected of a statesman.
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