KemiKaze’s best PMQs so far leaves Starmer entirely unruffled | John Crace
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The Tory leader managed to devote all six questions to one subject, even if it was one she didn’t know much about. Who would have guessed? Kemi Badenoch may be a slow learner – a painfully slow learner – but she is at least a learner. This may be not much, but it is a lifeline. Possibly. Whether it comes too late is another matter. The latest ConservativeHome poll of party members shows Kemi tumbling down the popularity rankings.
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Immediately after the election she was well ahead of the rest of the shadow cabinet. Now she’s down to seventh. Even halfwits like Robert Jenrick, Laura Trott and Chris Philp are ahead of her. Imagine that. Most people would want to give up at that point. It seems the more you see of Kemi, the less there is of her to like.
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Call it a combination of arrogance, laziness and delusion, but KemiKaze’s usual approach to prime minister’s questions is to burble on about the latest conspiracy theory. One of her many failings is that she believes whatever she reads on X. Sometimes she is subject to Elon Musk sensory overload so she is no more than a scattergun, asking six separate questions about whatever nonsense has kept her awake the night before. It’s preparation, but not as we know it.
So you’d have put money on Badenoch using her time at Wednesday’s PMQs to follow up Donald Trump’s pardon for the drug dealer Ross Ulbricht. Time to release all our middle-class white drug dealers. Then to pursue the opposition’s – or at least the Philpster’s – belief that there had been a government cover-up into the investigation of the Southport murders.
