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Kemi Badenoch must quit now to save the Conservative Party

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LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 1: Conservative Party Leader, Kemi Badenoch MP is seen during a press conference on Labour’s Jobs Tax at Conservative Central Office, Westminster on April 1, 2025 in London, England. The Conservative Party has been critical of the Labour government’s decision to raise the rate of employer National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from 13.8% to 15%, which takes effect later this week. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Last week’s local election results were an extinction-level event for the Conservative Party. To prevent Nigel Farage becoming the real leader of the British right, Kemi Badenoch must resign now, says William Atkinson

Amid stiff competition from their Canadian and Australian counterparts, the Conservatives’ local election disaster was the worst performance for a centre-right party in the last week.

This might not seem immediately apparent. Across the Atlantic and down in the Antipodes, Pierre Poilievre’s Tories and Peter Dutton’s Liberals lost parliamentary elections they had been on track to win before Donald Trump’s return blew a big orange hole in their campaigns. Both party leaders suffered the humiliation of losing their seats to the resurgent centre-left governments of Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese. Voters disliked........

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