The Tories have been mocked after holding a press conference in front of a backdrop likened to “an abandoned mattress”. Party leader Kemi Badenoch and shadow chancellor Mel Stride held the ...

The Tory party’s latest attempt to cut through to voters has failed, after it was brutally mocked over a press conference backdrop that looked like an ‘abandoned mattress’. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch ...

Posting on X, Jason Groves, the political editor of the Daily Mail, said: “Backdrop for the Tories’ big cost of living press conference looks uncannily like an abandoned mattress.” ...