内容摘要：Alongside all of this Amanda is continuing her search for other parents of children with Jack's condition.

Alongside all of this Amanda is continuing her search for other parents of children with Jack's condition.

She said she was changing the party but "it's not going to happen overnight" - and she insisted she would definitely lead it into the next general election in four years time.Earlier this week, Stride distanced the party from former Prime Minister Liz Truss's mini-budget, saying in a speech that it had damaged their economic credibility.

The £45bn package of tax cuts funded by borrowing sparked turmoil on financial markets and led to Truss resigning after just 45 days in office.Asked why she did not make a decisive break with Truss by throwing her out of the party, a smiling Badenoch said she did not know whether the former PM was still a member."Is she still in the party?" she asked, insisting that she was not interested in "any particular individual" but about how to get the country "back on track".

A spokesman for Truss, who lost her seat in last year's general election, confirmed she was still a Conservative Party member.In a speech earlier, Badenoch sought to flesh out her party's approach to tackling illegal immigration.

She launched a commission, which will be led by Tory peer and former justice minister Lord Wolfson, to look at the potential consequences of leaving international treaties including the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and whether this could help the government take back control of the asylum system.

The ECHR, which was established in 1950, sets out the rights and freedoms people are entitled to in the 46 signatory countries and is a central part of UK human rights law.Clyburn's endorsement of Biden is widely regarded as helping the former vice-president win South Carolina's primary and turn the tide in his struggling campaign. Since then, Democrats have had to re-evaluate their choice for the aging Biden – who grudgingly abandoned his re-election bid last year amid a rising din of questions about his competency.

After his successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris, lost to Donald Trump, many wondered if he had hung on too long. Then last month, Biden announced he had stage 4 prostate cancer, a condition with a grim prognosis that would have presented a national crisis if he had managed to win re-election.Now many within the party, including some of those dining on fried fish and white bread at Clyburn's gathering last Friday, are wondering if it's time the party found new blood - especially after three congressional Democrats died in office this year alone. The losses meant that the Republicans' slim majority in Congress was bolstered, allowing them to pass Trump's controversial spending bill by a single vote.

"We have a geriatric problem," said Ashley McIntyre Stewart, specifically noting the recent House spending bill. "We need to get the younger community involved so that we don't have the Republicans railroad us."According to a survey last month by Axios, more than half of the 30 Democrats in the House over age 75 are planning to seek re-election next year, including Clyburn, whose term would end when he is 88 if he wins.