There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through to deep struggles confronting democracy in the face of emboldened autocrats, unshackled technology and a wantonly destructive White House. Yet there is a silver lining amid the clouds of misery – and it has been exposed by the unlikely figure of Kemi Badenoch.

She is, for those who have forgotten, the latest leader of the Conservative Party, who has failed to make much of a mark since taking over its shattered remnants after last year’s electoral catastrophe.

Reports at the weekend said that she had ordered her team to lay off Donald Trump even as the man-child President of the United States pivots towards Moscow, sabotages Ukraine’s fight for survival, insults our friends, vandalises global trade, assails free speech and slithers away from democracy in his own land.

One Tory MP told The Mail on Sunday that Badenoch thinks she is friends with JD Vance so can influence Trump’s team, which shows incredible naivety – although it explains why she defended the Vice-President when he insulted Britain and our armed forces with

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