Kemi Badenoch’s listless leadership is still better than a divisive alternative like Robert Jenrick or James Cleverly, says Will Cooling

It’s just over a year since Nigel Farage re-entered frontline politics. What started as an inevitable defeat for the Conservative party in Clacton has become an existential rout.

After they slumped to their worst election defeat in the modern era, it was no surprise to see the Tories turn to Kemi Badenoch as the woman to lead them back into power. She was no outsider like left-wing insurgents George Lansbury or Jeremy Corbyn, having been a conventional minister under three Prime Ministers. She had clearly been preparing for the post-defeat........

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