Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for one nation Conservatism?

Kemi Badenoch says she will withdraw the UK from the European convention on human rights and scrap the 2050 net zero target. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

In one popular reading of the history of Tory successes, the party’s last three election-winning prime ministers – John Major, David Cameron and Boris Johnson – all swept into Downing Street on unifying one-nation platforms.

But for many people this year’s Tory conference, marked by its hardening rhetoric on asylum seekers and growing overtures to Nigel Farage’s brand of politics, feels a far cry from those broad principles.