Kemi remains two weeks behind on winter fuel allowance Increasingly irrelevant Tory leader once again shows she hasn’t been paying attention The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2025
Labour does a major U-turn but does Clueless Kemi even notice? The leader of the opposition missed the openest of open goals after Keir Starmer reversed cuts to winter fuel payments The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2025
Keir Starmer struggles to take KemiKaze seriously at PMQs Prime minister and Kemi Badenoch both know Tory leader has run out of dice rolls as all eyes turn to Reform The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2025
‘Don’t mention the local elections’: Keir and Kemi sign non-aggression pact at PMQs Starmer instead talked about his India deal, while Badenoch insisted on catching up with last week’s news The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2025
Sound the alarm for a KemiKaze breakfast, then hit snooze for the Starmer roadshow It’s local elections week and the party leaders are putting their faces out there, whether we want to see them or not The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2025
Starmer sails through PMQs as Badenoch fails to get out of the blocks again It’s almost as if KemiKaze herself believes Labour’s mantra that the Tories are the source of all hopelessness The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025
A defeated KemiKaze offers less opposition than Starmer’s own MPs All the fight seems to have gone out of the opposition leader, but mood on Labour’s backbenches is frosty over benefit cuts The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025
Starmer gives lesson in law 101 as KemiKaze crashes and burns again The Tory leader seems to be getting worse by the week – who knew thinking up a few coherent questions was so hard? The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2025
KemiKaze shows she doesn’t do sorry in first broadcast as Tory leader She longs to distance herself from Boris, Liz and Rishi – but it’s as if she has given up already The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2025
KemiKaze’s best PMQs by far leaves Starmer entirely unruffled The Tory leader managed to devote all six questions to one subject, even if it was one she didn’t know much about The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2025
KemiKaze’s ‘relaunch’ speech reveals a Tory leader already out of ideas Kemi Badenoch says she’s sorry not sorry for the mess left by 14 years of the Tories, but offers no clue of how to dig us out of it The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025
Labour could hardly have written KemiKaze a better script – and she blew it Tory cheers were just a muted, half-arsed Pavlovian response as their leader failed to land a single punch on the PM The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2025
Tories’ Pavlovian response to Elon Musk’s tweets leads to shameless PMQs Kemi Badenoch wanted an inquiry because she wanted an inquiry. Why was that difficult to understand? The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2025
Waspi women hand KemiKaze a gift, which she fails to unwrap Labour’s Christmas announcement of no compensation for pension changes is poor politics, but Badenoch bodged the argument The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024 The Tories are living in an echo chamber with Kemi Badenoch as its mouthpiece KemiKaze neither listens nor learns as she loses to Keir Starmer week after week at prime minister’s questions
The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024 Kemi Badenoch is her own worst enemy … and a gift for Keir Starmer and Labour PMQs takes detailed preparation, timing and a razor-sharp mind – none of which the leader of the opposition has yet demonstrated
The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2024 Post Office inquiry is treated to KemiKaze at her brittle, narcissistic worst Where others began by expressing regret over the Horizon scandal, Kemi said nothing. Because she feels nothing
The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024 Hypocrisy, student politics and scoring cheap points: Kemi gets to work at PMQs Tory leader makes clear on her debut that there will be no situation she is not capable of making worse
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2024 Badenoch plucks Patel, Jenrick and Stride from the Tories’ tiny gene pool of talent James Cleverly has the right idea – sit tight until the new leader of the opposition crashes and burns of her own accord
The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024 The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment
The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024 Digested week: My cardio rehab is done, and my dog’s joint care chews are a miracle Labour lets the Taylor Swift story rumble on, while KemiKaze, Honest Bob and Spurs just leave you feeling indifferent
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024 KemiKaze and Honest Bob are let loose on GB News where they can’t do any harm Badenoch fared slightly better in the TV special for the two Tory leadership candidates than Jenrick, who is the party’s very own hollow man
The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2024 KemiKaze lies low, letting Honest Bob talk himself into losing Tory leadership race Robert Jenrick’s ‘slightly clearer vision’ for the Conservatives is not wowing anyone while Kemi Badenoch is being kept out of sight to stop her upsetting anyone else
The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2024 ‘It’s great to be here’: watching the Tories turning farce into annihilation After Tory MPs send their vaguely normal candidate packing, all the rest of us can do is applaud them for their comic timing
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024 The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour James Cleverly had been the one Tory talking a small amount of sense, so of course he lost to Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick