Don't rule out Badenoch just yet...she has the same qualities as our greatest leader - Daniel Kawczynski

When I compare the last five Conservative leaders with Margaret Thatcher, none of them hold a candle to this amazing statesman and international leader.

The reason she won three General Elections in a row was not just about policy but the confidence she demonstrated to her Party colleagues and voters.

It is too early to tell whether Kemi will be like Thatcher but there are early signs that she certainly has the courage and convictions as well as the inner steel to be able to achieve Thatcher-like status by the time she leads us into battle at the 2029 General Election.

Thatcher was not the finished product when elected to the position of Leader of the Party in 1975. Much was done to refine her image for television and campaigning so that she could convey a powerful image as she toured the nation during the 1979 General Election.

Badenoch also has four years ahead of her to learn from international statesmen as she reaches out to right-of-centre parties around the world.

So far, we have received very positive responses from the Republican Party when Badenoch visited Washington a few weeks ago to start building that process of engagement between our Party and our most important partner in America.

Kemi has however traces and elements of Thatcher, and these started to come out clearly during the hustings I listened to between her and Robert Jenrick. She spoke about the need to change the benefits system which encouraged me greatly.

As I have said many times the British people have been taking more from Britain than they have been putting in for decades and that is the main reason our nation continues to have serious financial problems. This year the taxpayer will have to give £258billion of his and her hard-earned money into welfare payments. Over 22 million Britons claim benefits today, and the number of benefits that exist is mind-boggling. We need to radically prune this budget so that more of the money people earn is spent on helping to reduce taxation and investing in education and healthcare for citizens.

Badenoch also has four years ahead of her to learn from international statesmen as she reaches out to right-of-centre parties around the world.

So far, we have received very positive responses from the Republican Party when Badenoch visited Washington a few weeks ago to start building that process of engagement between our Party and our most important partner in America.

Badenoch has, however, traces and elements of Thatcher, and these started to come out clearly during the hustings I listened to between her and Robert Jenrick. She spoke about the need to change the benefits system, which encouraged me greatly.

As I have said many times the British people have been taking more from Britain than they have been putting in for decades and that is the main reason our nation continues to have serious financial problems. This year the taxpayer will have to give £258billion of his and her hard-earned money into welfare payments. Over 22 million Britons claim benefits today, and the number of benefits that exist is mind-boggling. We need to radically prune this budget so that more of the money people earn is spent on helping to reduce taxation and investing in education and healthcare for citizens.

Badenoch had the courage to start talking about these things, and this was the spark for me that convinced me she has, like Thatcher, the ability to take on the civil service and other set-in-their-ways institutions when proposing and forcing through tough but essential changes.

The Reform Party no doubt benefits from charismatic leaders like Farage and Tice both men are putting together a very formidable Party with the social media platform and national campaigning essential to matter in British politics. We must respect this Party, unlike Cameron, who called UKIP fruitcakes.

We should see Reform as a credible threat to our chances of removing Keir Starmer, but we should reach out to them and build some sort of dialogue between our two right-of-centre parties so that the collective right does everything possible to remove this disastrous PM at the next opportunity.

The reason, however, that the Conservative Party will be the largest Party in 2029 is because of our established reputation for sound fiscal management in Britain over many generations.

We just lacked strong, courageous leadership over the last 15 years. That essential aspect of having a man or woman at the very top of the structure who shows leadership and commands respect and interest as Thatcher did. We now have the embryonic stages of this in Kemi. I wish her the very best as she rebuilds her Party to take on Socialism and exposes the failings of this lacklustre Socialist government.