The Conservative Party should not be written off yet, Kemi Badenoch has insisted.The Tory leader also suggested her party faces a long, hard battle to return to power and prominence as she spoke at the Welsh Conservative Conference in Llangollen, where she was compared to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

The Conservative Party should not be written off yet, Kemi Badenoch has insisted.The Tory leader also suggested her party faces a long, hard battle to return to power and prominence as she spoke at the Welsh Conservative Conference in Llangollen, where she was compared to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.