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Kemi Badenoch us probably the leader the Tories need. She neutralises a lot of obvious criticism of the party because of her gender and colour. Someone said to me last week 'But she'll push the party to the right' which in my opinion is where it needs to go to have any chance of staying relevant.

Because she is what the party needs, she almost certainly won't get the job.

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I think she and Jenrick both appear that way on the surface, but unfortunately they're Tories who served under the last administration and didn't voice these opinions publicly until it was politically and personally useful for them to do so, during its last few breaths and now that they want to be leader. I get the point about her colour and gender, but it doesn't actually deflect anything in reality as she's always accused of somehow not being true to her roots. It's similar to what Farage is getting Reform to do, constantly framing what they do and say in terms that won't offend or supposedly give ammunition to their opposition. That's a failure mode, you don't allow an opponent to set the conditions you work in, you do what is effective and let your opponents cry at the result. Especially as you will be attacked no matter what you do, they must be tuned out. I'm not sure how many people got the Terminator 2 T1000 reference in the Scroll the other day, with reference to the Tories? Farage by being weak in his stance against immigration, etc, cedes ground to the Tories, undermines his own party's reason for existing and allows the Tories to regroup, just as they always do, instead of be killed off, which is what's required.

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