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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Angela Rayner is a picture of misery but Dr Kemi passes up open goal

Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch: a fatal combination of misplaced confidence and inflexibility. Photograph: House of Commons/AFP/Getty Images

You could argue that prime minister’s questions is no longer fit for purpose. Indeed, that it never really has been. Just a theatre showcase for some performance politics where few answers are ever extracted from the prime minister.

To which you might now add that the Tories are not the real opposition. So Kemi Badenoch is essentially an impostor. Sometime over the summer the mantle of official opposition passed to Reform UK. So it really should be Nigel Farage, not Kemi, asking the questions.

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