Kemi Badenoch attended her first PMQs as leader of the Conservative Party today. It didn’t go well. In one of the first questions put to the prime minister, the Labour MP Jacob Collier criticised Badenoch’s widely reported comments about maternity pay. During the Tory leadership election, she suggested that maternity pay in the UK is ‘excessive’.

New Tory leader had Keir Starmer on the ropes about the incoming US president. Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through.

Five minutes into Kemi Badenoch's debut as Tory leader at PMQs and Keir Starmer was like a cartoon character who'd been knocked senseless, stars spinning around his head.

Kemi Badenoch said she will tell "hard truths" to both the country and her party as she began her first full day as Conservative leader. In her first interview since winning the Tory leadership election, Badenoch said the UK is getting poorer and older, and is being "outcompeted" by other countries.

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In her victory speech last week, Badenoch promised to "renew" the Conservative Party, saying "it's time to get down to business".