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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Kemi Badenoch bides her time but may have less of it than she thinks

Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch said on Today that the job so far had gone ‘as well as it possibly could do’. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Kemi Badenoch would like you to know that everything is going very well and that she has plenty of time. That, in its most digested form, was the message from her marathon Today programme interview. Will her MPs be reassured? It may be a little more complicated.

In fairness to the Conservative leader, as she said several times, she has been in the job for little more than seven weeks, and turning around a party that has just slumped from 344 MPs to a mere 121 is not a simple task.

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