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For the Tories it's now a race to look like a serious outfit and for Kemi Badenoch it's a race to become not just a leader who voters recognise, but one they warm to.

Sir Keir Starmer conceded people were not yet feeling the benefits of a Labour government, while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to make her party a "credible" alternative once again.

On the Today programme, shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller insisted that Kemi Badenoch would be the party's leader in a year's time.

The prime minister and the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch have both written post-mortem articles in Saturday's newspapers.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch acknowledged that her party was facing a "long journey" to rebuild after its long spell in government, adding that "protest is in the air" in a "very competitive political environment".