‘People are scared of her, to be honest’: Kemi Badenoch remakes Tories in her image

Kemi Badenoch: ‘There’s a new captain, there’s a new coach, there’s a new owner, effectively – which is all me.’ Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Kemi Badenoch has long said that the Conservatives were “under new management”, but in a TV interview to mark the end of a party conference at which she has been front and centre of more or less everything, she took the analogy further.

“Your viewers will know that sometimes you have a football team that’s disappointing,” the Tory leader told GB News. “There’s a new captain, there’s a new coach, there’s a new owner, effectively – which is all me.”