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7/23/2025, 11:52:21 AM
https://xcancel.com/NewStatesman/status/1947913124679434616#m
>KEMI ISN'T WORKING
>Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into her Airpods. But, worse than that, her leadership is failing. Her party slips and slides in the polls, and much of the hope once invested in her by Conservative grandees has vanished, replaced by snide briefings and disappointment.
>They ponder joining Reform UK. They regard the shadow cabinet as non-entities. Many of them are simply sharpening their knives for November, when party rules dictate Kemi Badenoch can first be challenged for the leadership. Where did it all go wrong for this standard bearer of the right, the woman in whose outline the Tories once spied a second Margaret Thatcher?
>Badenoch's rise and fall is the story of a particular period of British conservatism, one that sought to make the Tories palatable to 21st-century Britain. But what they sought to repress has now come back in full force. Behind the facade, a new conservatism has emerged, one that loathes Kemi Badenoch, and is already agitating to topple her leadership
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>KEMI ISN'T WORKING
>Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into her Airpods. But, worse than that, her leadership is failing. Her party slips and slides in the polls, and much of the hope once invested in her by Conservative grandees has vanished, replaced by snide briefings and disappointment.
>They ponder joining Reform UK. They regard the shadow cabinet as non-entities. Many of them are simply sharpening their knives for November, when party rules dictate Kemi Badenoch can first be challenged for the leadership. Where did it all go wrong for this standard bearer of the right, the woman in whose outline the Tories once spied a second Margaret Thatcher?
>Badenoch's rise and fall is the story of a particular period of British conservatism, one that sought to make the Tories palatable to 21st-century Britain. But what they sought to repress has now come back in full force. Behind the facade, a new conservatism has emerged, one that loathes Kemi Badenoch, and is already agitating to topple her leadership
Say her name
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