Badenoch has a grasp of the task ahead, and the gumption, when many would flee the scene, to get us back into government. We wish her all the best. We have work to do.
Kemi Badenoch has been elected Leader of the Conservative Party. She defeated Robert Jenrick in the final members’ round of the leadership election by 57 per cent to 44 per cent, on a 73 per cent turnout.
After Rachel Reeves’s dispatch box performance, every little girl in Britain can grow up knowing that she too could one day break her manifesto promises.
If they are serious about reversing Britain’s decline, Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will have to have a few large, difficult, and totemic fights with their own party – a lesson learnt from Machiavelli.
We should stick to Sunak’s balancing act, rather than lurching between environmental extremes
I do seem to be more aware than the Cabinet that making life more difficult for the private sector is unlikely to be good for growth.
Is Michael Gove right to suggest that Robert Jenrick’s efforts to cut through against Kemi Badenoch are hampered by his looking like too much of a traditional Tory politician?
This week’s most important development for the future of the Tory leadership took place not on the GB News stage, but in a meeting of the 1922 Committee’s executive.
If the Chancellor is that desperate for revenue, she should reverse Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election cuts. The Tory attack line will be the same whatever she chooses.
The loss of this year’s election was down to failures more fundamental than Johnson’s defenestration – and his return would not automatically improve Tory prospects.
The chances that Reeves does not make it to the next election, or even out of the next two years, are higher than you might think.
Both candidates have their distinctive analyses and prescriptions. Both offer more than the affable management of decline. A choice, not an echo.
Having led on the first two rounds, Jenrick now finds himself a full 8 MPs behind Cleverly.
If Gray had hoped she could push out the politicos, piggyback on a pliable PM, and hold the sway over Whitehall she had assumed was rightfully hers, she has been proven catastrophically wrong.