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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Freddy Gray

Rivalry, ambition and the threat from the Right: Can Kemi Badenoch resuscitate the Tories?

Kemi Badenoch has been elected leader of the Conservative Party. (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Wire)

Where’s Kemi? That’s not a question most Tories thought they would be asking this time last month, as they elected their sixth leader in eight years.

On the contrary, the top brass believed their party had finally found in Kemi Badenoch a “generational talent” — a charismatic champion who could turn their fortunes around.

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