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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

KemiKaze’s ‘relaunch’ speech reveals a Tory leader already out of ideas

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch after delivering a speech on how the Conservative party can rebuild voters' trust on 16 January at the Institute of Directors in London. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Seeing is not always believing. Fair to say that Kemi Badenoch’s time as leader of the Tory party has not got off to the best of starts. Hopeless at prime minister’s questions and seemingly already out of ideas, many in the party are already looking around for possible successors. Even Robert Jenrick. Things really are that desperate.

Even so, 10 weeks in feels a little premature for a relaunch. If that’s what it was. Hard to know really as no one was much the wiser after Kemi had finished what had been billed as an “important” speech at the Institute of Directors in central London. No one does pointlessness quite like KemiKaze. She is the queen of futility.

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