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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Labour does a major U-turn but does Clueless Kemi even notice?

Kemi Badenoch addressing the House of Commons
Kemi Badenoch stuck to the script rather than seize the chance to put the boot in when Labour announced a U-turn on winter fuel payments. Photograph: House of Commons/PA

Never change, Kemi, never change. We love you just the way you are. Look on the bright side: it could have been worse. KemiKaze could have used all six of her questions at prime minister’s questions to have re-examined the Tories’ very own rubbish Brexit deal. Just as she had for the previous two days. Mistakenly believing that this time – maybe, this time – she could find the killer line. It would have been too much to expect her to have realised there wasn’t one.

But no. Kemi chose to cut her losses. A triumph of sorts. Only the Tory leader then went on to snatch a humiliating defeat when all she had to do was tap the ball into the emptiest of nets.

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