when you're a conservative, what does that you're trying to conserve? because, you know, idea of conservative sounds like it should be part of conservation. yeah, yeah. so what is it you're trying to conserve? thank you know. thank you very much. well, i think know i appreciate the question. i do want to clarify that. i did not say that all environmentalist were that way. i said out of the 39% who were self-identified my friend was that the vast majority of them are not like this. and if you this book, you will you will find that that is true. and i think that that's just really important. and the hostility that you have in the question is maybe why republicans struggle to i'm just going to be honest. so that's just number one. what do i want to conserve? i want to conserve the things the same things you want to conserve, assume, which is the the beautiful natural areas of this world that have the given to us that we rely on to survive. i want to protect beaches and the mountains and the forests and the farmland but i also want to protect humanity. and

but this is not just _ about the conservative party. the people | we want to bring back to the conservative party. it is about the people we need to bring intoj the conservative party. it is about what the - conservative party needs to be over the next five, ten, and 20 years. - 0ur party is critical _ to the success of our country, but to be heard, we have to be honest, honest about the factl that we made mistakes, honest about the fact i that we let standards slip. the time has come to tell the truth. i applause. and henry, what would you say is the true state of the tory party now? we'll get into the policy stuff in a second. but ijust think in terms of the state of the party, how would you truthfully describe it as a group of an entity that got absolutely battered injuly, but, you know, still are a massive part of the fabric of our political life? well, i actually think the fact that they've had such a long leadership election, almost four months, has allowed them to postpone, to an extent, the reckoning with how diminished they are

at least you can order on this conservancy without pro fee animals on this conservancy. it gives a purpose to the animals. if there is no purpose to the animals, the animals is not going to survive at the end of the day. the isn't it good to be able to sacrifice one of those poles in order to make all of the others live in this area? because that one who can do the protein that we give to the villages for that area, that one boat can do cash payments for the area. and it actually gives value to the elephant. that one. the one thing is clear. humans are responsible for the no numbers of elephant. the elephant population has declined dramatically in the 20th century. mainly because they were hunted for the ivory. population stabilized at low levels in the 1990s. hunters ought to use it, elephants are especially abundance in areas where hunting revenues fund conservation meshes. and stephen jacob says that animals can be hunted asset k. i think if it go on thing is to me is make sure that the guy, the, the animal or the prize taken on the most cleanly and in most you main w

conservative party.bout the people we need to bring into the conservative party. it is about what the conservative party needs to be over the next five, ten and 20 years. our party is critical to the success of our country, but to be heard, we have to be honest, our party is critical to the success of our country, but to be heard, we have to be honest, honest about the fact that we made mistakes, that we let standards slip. the time has come to tell the truth. applause the time has come to tell the truth. to stand up for our principles, to plan for ourfuture, to reset our politics and our thinking, and to give our party and our country the new start that they deserve. it is time to get down to business. it is time to renew. thank you ladies and gentlemen. applause kemi badenoch speaking after the announcement of her leadership of the conservative party. let's speak to our chief political correspondent henry zeffman. while robertjenrick outlined his policies and details, we didn't hear as much about that

see in conservative. have conservative students at columbia because i'm. the one liberal on campus who really engaging with them. but several students have pointed out this to me and let me just read very quickly, this is the history department at columbia put out a statement of values this was after the george floyd murder the history department is committed to providing an intellectual and social environment that is free from bias discrimination and abuses of power good. we will, to the best of our ability that the department acknowledges and actively tries to transform social conditions formed in the past and still prevalent today. and then there's a list of them. so that little phrase actively tries to transform social conditions. conservative students look at that and a you are not welcome sign that is not what they take to be the of of the university. but it's meant that you've got to share a certain politics in to feel comfortable there the that there are you might have to fill out a statement on y

see in the conservative students and so i have conservative students at columbia because i'm going liberalmpus really enjoys engaging with them. but several students have pointed out that all do this quickly, this is the history department at columbia put out a statement of values this was after the george floyd murder. history of the department is committed to providing an intellectual professional and social environment that is free from bias discrimination and abuses of power good. and to ensure the best of our ability the department acknowledges and actively tries to transform social connections in the past and prevalent today and there isso a list of them so that little phrase actively cry and tries to perform social conditions. conservative at that and arrested entered that was like you are not welcome sign something take to be the task of university to the extent that you need to share certain politics in order to feel comfortable there the fact that there are you might have to fill out a statement on your views about diversity and things like that and these are all settled little g

she is either a liberal conservative or conservative liberal, i am never quite sure. like her optimism and full throated defense of the democratic process. what i do not appreciate is her seeming inability to take a clear stand on much of anything. did that one hurt? i won't read these other ones. [laughter] peggy: that's so thoughtful, actually. peter: like i said, it's like a conversation these viewers have with you. you are called peg, it's like a conversation. peggy: i'm not sure i ever really thought of it like that. sometimes readers are very familiar with me. sometimes, there was a guy who writes in and says this is it, i will never review again and then he comes in two weeks later and he will never read me again again. sometimes people say they have had enough of me and somebody else will answer them back and say, and yet here you are. which amuses me a lot. i hate the feeling i am disappointing people. and the trump folk who could see my early sympathy for his stance and for the need of someone to break through this establishment , i came not to like him and

what else do conservatives want? justice chance thomas already signalled he wants to revisit contraceptives and gay marriage. mark joseph stern who covers the high court for slate looks to us to talk about the potential agenda, and it's not just the supreme court. it's the federal judiciary itself. you'll remember senator mitch mcconnell made confirming conservative judges, his primary focus during trump's first term, which included judges like aileen cannon, the south florida judge who slow walked and dismissed jack smith's classified documents case against donald trump. how many more cannons will this next two years yield, and what lasting challenges, and changes could they make to legal precedent on everything from free speech, and discrimination, to prescription drugs and guns. but first, how many outstanding vacancies can the democrats fill before january. there are 47 bench openings on the lower courts, which include trial courts and the courts of appeal. joining us now, nbc news senior national political repor

the new conservative - the speech. the new conservative leader l the speech.y clear lines between the conservatives a smug approach to migration and that of the labour government? labour perhaps wants to talk less about migration that the conservatives did. and it rishi sunak the conservatives talked about a firm promise to stop the boats. —— under rishi sunak. the prime minister has spoken less about that, he has said the emphasis will not be on trying to deter people through a scheme like wonder why people's asylum applications would be considered offshore, but instead via a policing process where the police would go and treat illegal immigration as though it were terrorism, trying to stop smugglers getting people on the boat sent across the channel. so a very clear difference. don't forget, immigration as a core policy for the conservatives. they have reform to their rights and full reform immigration needs more of the policy, so the conservatives need to be seen to be coming out firmly and saying something about an issue which i think it is clear is someth

conservatives with dispute. that is conservative, a tool, but we heard him in the clip there also talk about it, mag make america great again this, this in sort of thrusting nationalist, a brand of conservatism to, to donald trump has made his own. and i think that this sense about the 2nd from tom is that trump has the experience from his 1st time of having had in his administration. many people working on the him who he felt were working against. and you saw that in many of those, those people have come out with books and in the often moss of that ministration criticizing that, that for my boss telling details of how they managed to him to him from doing things that they so as dangerous. donald trump has had that experience and now he is expected to be making picks for his top administration jobs, where he feels that they are more ideologically in line with him. and we had the 1st taste of that with the pick of j defense as his running mate. and who was seen is pretty much had paid by donald trump's son don't.

if the conservatives had a better i i think trump did that well.- conservatives had a better messageom the perspective of kemi badenoch, shej perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't— perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't call— perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't call her— perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't call her campaign— perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't call her campaign that, - perspective of kemi badenoch, she didn't call her campaign that, she i didn't call her campaign that, she called _ didn't call her campaign that, she called it— didn't call her campaign that, she called it renewal— didn't call her campaign that, she called it renewal 2030. _ didn't call her campaign that, she called it renewal 2030. she - didn't call her campaign that, she called it renewal 2030. she is- called it renewal 2030. she is looking — called it renewal 2030. she is looking at— called it renewal 2030. she is looking at how _ called it renewal 2030. she is looking at how you _ called it renewal 2030. she is looking at how you drive i called it renewal 2030. she is looking at

there was a lot of animation from conservatives around questions of political race theory and conservatives will say no, a kindergartner is not reading can really crenshaw at the korea -- collegiate level. -- kimberly crenshaw at the collegiate level, but their argument is that it is influencing u.s. education textbooks and that certainly you can see the influence that may be a student would see in middle school or high school and they are going to want to deemphasize that. i am not certain what specific policy the administration would have on this, but whoever trump puts as his education secretary, they are likely not going to privilege this sort of thing. again, a lot of individual policy curriculum will be decided by the states. these controversies that pop up and motivate the states, the question is -- all right, politicians were able to control the passions of voters, fundraiser on this and get out there and vote. now what are those politicians going to do? how are they going to govern? host: have you heard any rumbling about who might serve as white house press secretary or communicat

she is either a liberal conservative or conservative lira i am never quite sure. i like her optimism and full throated defense of the democratic process. what i do not appreciate is her seeming inability to take a clear stand on much of anything. did that one hurt? i won't read these other ones. [laughter] peggy: that's so thoughtful, actually. peter: like i said, it's like a conversation these viewers have with you. you are called peg, it's like a conversation. peggy: i'm not sure i ever really thought of it like that. sometimes readers are very familiar with me. sometimes, there was a guy who writes in and says this is it, i will never review again and then he comes in two weeks later and he will never read me again again. sometimes people say they have had enough of me and somebody else will answer them back and say, and yet here you are. which amuses me a lot. i hate the feeling i am disappointing people. and the trump folk who could see my early sympathy for his stance and for the need of someone to break through this establishment , i came not to like him an

it's 900 pages of basically conservative orthodoxy. things conservatives were prescribed like policy and department of education a little pie-in-the-sky but something they wanted for for a long . the issue was particularly came to abortion policy heritage, like all think tanks do, they were describing their ideal and when the ideal was farther to the right of what the trump campaign was describing that created confusion among reporters and the public and gave democrats an opportunity to go on the deck. >> host: that was some elements of this i want a walk-through called a mandate for leadership. what was at? >> guest: mandate for leadership is blueprint for how they want any administration to govern. and he can heritage has been doing this since the reagan administration. republicans often relied some other policy proposals in the way any think tank put together white paper and hopes are ao put some thought into law. i can the difference this time is it was much more expensive. what herridge was trying to do, threes whitest of this eff

you could get the conservative democrats to pair up with the conservative republicans, or the conservative democrats would get the liberal republicans. that has disappeared. everyone who is a liberal is in the democrat party. everyone who is conservative is in the republican party. this new coalition that has come forward -- maybe we could start moving back to less party sorting. most conservatives say donald trump is not necessarily conservative. i think there are working-class voters who consider themselves liberal who are supporting trump. i think there is a bit of a backlash. trying to bring them back to the center -- i think there could be all kinds of working governing majorities that could start emerging on various issues and legislation. that could help unify our party gridlock. it could be a great thing. >> i was thinking about much the same. as a partisan, you want your party to win their election. i think the person who cares deeply about democracy, that the idea of every vote being in the mix, that you have to compete for every vote and you are looking across different geograph

if you are a conservative _ new leadership. if you are a conservative mp, _ new leadership. - new leadership. if you are a conservative mp, you are i conservative mp, you are standing a very good chance of being included in the shadow cabinet. ~ , cabinet. absolutely right. it bears repeating _ cabinet. absolutely right. it bears repeating and - cabinet. absolutely right. it bears repeating and might i bears repeating and might explain why it took a couple of days for up kemi badenoch to put together this shadow cabinet. the conservative party in parliament is smaller than it has ever been at any point in its existence, i2i mps. that is a really, really diminished parliamentary party when you consider a full shadow front bench, notjust shadow cabinet but people shadowing the junior ministers, it's probably 70 or 80 people, so about two thirds of conservative mps. i suspect as kemi badenoch puts together the rest of the team in the next couple of days you will see more and more mps doubling up. some mps who have not been givenjobs in the up. some mps who have not been given j

the expectation of almost every conservative mp i have _ almost every conservative mp i have spoken tose backing — have spoken to including those backing robertjenrick is kemi badenoch will win. it does not mean — badenoch will win. it does not mean they are right. think back to the _ mean they are right. think back to the last — mean they are right. think back to the last round of mps when they— to the last round of mps when they chose candidates from three _ they chose candidates from three. everyone thought james cleverly— three. everyone thought james cleverly would come top. he is not here, — cleverly would come top. he is not here, not one of the candidates who knows? no one knows — candidates who knows? no one knows what will happen but somewhere right now, kemi badenoch and robert jenrick are finding _ badenoch and robert jenrick are finding out privately who has won — finding out privately who has won the _ finding out privately who has won the conservative leadership election— won the conservative leadership election and then they will come _ election and then they will come

who and you know, in the conservatives to that was to election defeat since 1832. what were the challenge reports now from the which is a significant milestone in politics for a senior conservative of blackman, but it says policy tab, a black leader of the policy can be paid to know the wife, who robot jen. rick biased emoji, and a full month contest that so conservative and peas with those 6 contestants down to just to who would then put before the policies, a $131000.00 members to choose between me. how to get this task is it daunting. one, rebuilding the policy off the rest, west election defeats and living memory. we have to be honest, honest about the fact that we made mistakes, honest about the fact that we let stand it slipped. the time has come to tell the truth, but mrs. braden ox, truth is not necessarily in line with that to the voting public milk is from the right flank of the conservative policy. something of a culture war. yeah. and see was not keen on trends rights types of wrote back on statements. the maternity pay was excessive and said that a 10t

dominic bendinelli is a lifelong conservative in ccl. the best strategy going forward is to focus on economics because there is an economic case to be made for a lot of the clean energy policies that we'd like to see done. he meets with representatives in both parties about climate bills with a strong economic bent. one relaxes the multiyear permitting process for all types of energy projects, both green ones and fossil fuels. we would probably prefer to have only clean energy, permiting move forward in a quicker way, but in order to reach across the aisle, we have to expand what we're okay with in order to get our priorities moved forward. we see the economics kind of taking over from there and making it clean. energy being the clear choice of what you'd want to build. another bipartisan effort in congress has been the proved act that could help lower emissions based tariffs planned by europe and china. in fact, a favorite proposal for climate conservatives is a u.s. carbon tax. but that idea has had little success in congress. so they'

in fact, more americans almost in ten say they are conservative or very conservative on social issues than they did in 2023 and 2021. and the percentage, their social views are very liberal or liberal has actually declined to under 30% from 34% over the same time period. right. gallup states that the increase in a conservative view of social issues over the past two years has among nearly all political and demographic subgroups. and i show just briefly in stumbling toward utopia that this idea that is a natural upward and forever trajectory of progressivism is actually not the case. and i think that we are already seeing, by the way, first, in culture, last in politics. and i actually think that we are seeing a number of ways in america present, lee, where they are signs of, restoration, signs of renewal and the number homeschoolers has boomed in america to almost. 4 million homeschoolers, private and christian and jewish education is increase seeing the number americans who have who never been before involved in in issues of running for the school board paying attention to the curric

i was becoming politically shockingly conservative. was reading national review and had been for a while. the boston i came to was in the middle of the bus and crisis. the america i was involved in was in the middle of the vietnam crisis. i found myself naturally taking the conservative side on issues. i watched the conservatives running around in america, they were fine but i was not a registered republican, i was just a person with thoughts. after a few years in boston went down to be a news writer at the cbs broadcast center where i had been a temporary secretary. and the wonderful thing happened to me, this is later in the 1970's, i was on the radio side, they kept me on radio. the guys on the radio side at cbs news the 1970's were the ones who had invented writing for broadcast with ed morrow. charles collingwood was still there, douglas edwards, these were my colleagues and i listened to how they put things and what they thought a story was. and charles osgood, a much younger man but a kind of genius. i learned so much and finall

imagine how conservative this generation will be now that they are starting conservative that they haveralism ages 18 , and 20. at turning point for gumby 24/7 through 65 standing army of the conservative movement during the difficult but necessary community organizing work to be able to keep these majorities, to expand them also make sure a pro- american pro- liberty world view is dominant in monks all generations especially the next generation. >> 's is very, very exciting. now charlie kirk let me ask you this. i see two groups of young people may be many more but the two groups i am looking at are those instinctively conservative and group conservative households who jujust did not vote. and then another group indoctrinated relentlessly or even in public school system in the unions and so forth and so on. it seems to me that in some respects those are two different groups with two different approaches how do you approach of both of those groups? >> is go to the first one initially. the first group is people who need confidence to be a conservative they wane and their conservative bel

and we know that in recent years, the most conservative conservatives, especially traditional conservatives, is but a very important point. and that's carried over to these conservative populace. and especially to these kind of tech billionaires, they're the ones like you, i must who really take up this idea of the federal bureaucracy taking up too much air in the economy. but it does raise a lot of questions. how's you on most going to juggle what he's doing right now with this? what accountability will he have? and of course there's this ethics question as well, you know, what is his company's base x. among other companies, it has contracts with the federal government. so is he going to call those who might actually take a close look at some of the contracts that he has? is he going to call those who might have a say over the environmental impact of some of his launches? these are very earnest questions and the question is, is this going to be lost and kind of the joking us of this are americans, are americans going to look at this? are they going to see it seriously? is it going to be ta

and the conservatives have said, however, that they won't support any new projects. and, but i think there's at least one other possible reason to avoid the election campaigns over the christmas break. i think the thinking there is that demons wouldn't appreciate political fighting tv, tv debates, etc. during the one period of the year when it's supposed to be about harmony and family time. but the new po shows that 2 sides of germans actually want fresh elections as soon as possible now. so have clarity. so of course, the opposition will keep repeating this cool for an immediate vote of confidence and they'll, they say that next wednesday would be a suitable day when the chancellor is expected to address parliament anyway. and they say that they are where they come folsom. but that is thinking about organizing some sort of public expression in parliament next week, which would of course make the month a bit more for me. so the pressure for the early vote is on what are the prospects of chancellor shows actually winning a vote of confidence in parliament? you know, t

in fact, more americans almost in ten say they are conservative or very conservative on social issues than they did in 2023 and 2021. and the percentage, their social views are very liberal or liberal has actually declined to under 30% from 34% over the same time period. right. gallup states that the increase in a conservative view of social issues over the past two years has among nearly all political and demographic subgroups. and i show just briefly in stumbling toward utopia that this idea that is a natural upward and forever trajectory of progressivism is actually not the case. and i think that we are already seeing, by the way, first, in culture, last in politics. and i actually think that we are seeing a number of ways in america present, lee, where they are signs of, restoration, signs of renewal and the number homeschoolers has boomed in america to almost. 4 million homeschoolers, private and christian and jewish education is increase seeing the number americans who have who never been before involved in in issues of running for the school board paying attention to the curric

but the conservatives won't tell us what that numerical cap would be.elebrated having 100,000 members today. nigel farage says the consequences of the immigration numbers are obvious. horrendous, if you want to get a gp appointment. horrendous, if you want to travel around britain's motorways. horrendous, if you want your kids or grand kids to ever get a foot on to the housing ladder. arrivals and departures here will remain central to our national conversation for years to come. chris mason reporting there. our political editor. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent hannah miller, who told me keir starmer is placing blame on the conservatives for the uk's migration record high figures. some pretty strong language there from the prime minister, keir starmer, laying the blame at the conservatives' door — because these figures go up tojune 2024, which was before the general election. the shadow home secretary, chris philp, has responded to those comments in the last hour or so, describing the idea that the conservatives pursued an open borders e

this is not a popular idea with a lot of the lawmakers, conservative lawmakers on capitol hill. this is a real third rail in the veterans community, because if you're talking about clawing back any money from disabled veterans, not a very popular position. but there has been a lot of talk about has the disability system just become too generous? this a situation where veterans don't really have to show that it's service connected, that they're getting higher disability levels and higher payouts based on injuries that maybe aren't as debilitating as what we've seen in the past. so there is some chatter about this. i don't anticipate this really getting too far again because of the political touchiness of the whole thing. i think the bigger switch won't be policy. i think it will be sort of attitude towards that and maybe just not the encouragement that we've seen or even discouragement to veterans to go out and get those disability benefits. ali: the trump campaign also talks a lot about issues they characterize as woke military policies, including supporting members of the milit

but this is notjust about the conservative party. the conservative party. it is about the people we need to bring into the conservative party. it is about what the conservative party needs to be over the next five, ten and 20 years. 0ur party is critical to the success of our country, but to be heard, we have to be honest, honest about the fact that we made mistakes, that we let standards slip. the time has come to tell the truth. to stand up for our principles, to plan for our future, to reset our politics and our thinking, and to give our party and our country the new start that they deserve. it is time to get down to business. it is time to renew. thank you. ladies and gentlemen. and for viewers in the uk we'll have be hearing more from kemi badenoch's acceptance speech in the next half hour. kamala harris and donald trump have held ralliesjust six miles apart in the city of milwaukee, in wisconsin, three days before voters decide which one of them will become the next us president. wisconsin is one of seven contested states that