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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Kemi remains two weeks behind on winter fuel allowance

Kemi Badenoch speaks during PMQs
Kemi Badenoch has no idea she is her own worst enemy. Photograph: House of Commons/AFP/Getty Images

Even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day. A level of success to which Kemi Badenoch can only aspire right now. We’ve reached the point where her having a decent stab at approximating some intelligent questions goes down as an unmitigated triumph. Not that it really matters any more.

To care about the Tory leader’s performances at prime minister’s questions is to commit a category error. She has become an irrelevance both to Labour and her own MPs. Possibly even to herself. Though that might require a level of personal insight that is beyond her.

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