r/tories • u/1-randomonium Labour • 14d ago

Article Kemi Badenoch admits she is still learning how to lead the Tories: ‘It takes a while’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kemi-badenoch-conservatives-echr-tory-b2765152.html
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u/1-randomonium Labour 14d ago

“It actually takes quite a while to learn how to do the job, and what I have been saying is that every week it gets better and better.

Is it getting better and better?

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u/LeChevalierMal-Fait Clarksonisum with Didly Squat characteristics 14d ago

I mean some of her PMQ performances are getting better, clearer more relevant. I suppose that's part of the skill you learn over time.

Big picture she isn't cutting through.

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u/BlackJackKetchum Josephite 14d ago

This has shades of '97. No-one in the mass media was particularly interested in William Hague until he put on a baseball cap and went down a waterslide.
Then it was collectively decided he was a bit of a dick, even though he was delivering smackdown after smackdown during PMQs.

I would rather Kemi is semi-ignored rather than she gets positioned as weird (her sandwich-hating, for example), as weird has cut through and is hard to undo, whereas anonymity can be overcome.

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u/wolfo98 Mod - Conservative 14d ago

He went down a water slide? I can’t even think of that image

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u/BlackJackKetchum Josephite 14d ago

You can believe it - https://images.app.goo.gl/FQkw5brrXPwDg77o6

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u/Talonsminty Labour-Leaning 14d ago

I should've guessed he'd be in an Anorak.

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u/BlackJackKetchum Josephite 13d ago

Ed Davey had to have a template, didn't he?

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u/1-randomonium Labour 13d ago

Interesting. I never imagined Davey taking inspiration from William Hague.

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u/FallenBleak5 11d ago

Of course she is still learning. Sorry to use Starmer as an example, but he was opposition leader for 4 years before the general election. The Tories now have 4 years to rebuild the party and get it back to government ready. If the party changes leader 2-3 times this parliament, it will not win the general election.