Kemi Badenoch today threw her weight behind Idris Elba’s call for casting directors to avoid a ‘woke’ choice for the next James Bond. The British actor made headlines this week after denying decades-long rumours that he is among the runners and riders to take over from Daniel Craig.

Speaking to GQ, the star said he was flattered by the suggestion, but that Bond ‘was written how he was written for a reason’ and ‘let’s not try and make it woke’. The Tory leader backed the comments at a press conference on the dangers of identity politics in Westminster today. She told a crowd of card-carrying Conservatives and the media: ‘I agree with........

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