Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech in London in which she urges the new prime minister to rule out new taxes. She argues that the government should reduce the benefits bill rather than increase costs for businesses and workers. Badenoch frames her comments as a warning against repeating past policy approaches, suggesting that tax rises are a likely outcome unless the government takes a different direction. Her remarks focus on how the state budget could be managed, contrasting any potential tax increases with spending cuts related to welfare. The speech presents her position that improving public finances should rely on reducing benefits expenditure, not adding further financial burdens through additional taxation. The report describes the intervention as a direct call to set a clear stance on tax policy under the new government.