Tories think Jenrick is making new push for leadership as Badenoch stumbles

Ruth Davidson: Kemi Badenoch won't lead the Tories into next general election

Ruth Davidson has criticised Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Tories, casting doubt on whether she will be in charge at the 2029 general election.

Tories think Jenrick is making new push for leadership as Badenoch stumbles

As Kemi Badenoch delivered her latest set piece speech attacking Labour’s “job tax” this week, Tory eyes were being drawn, not for the first time, to her shadow Justice Secretary and one time leadership rival Robert Jenrick in the Commons.Standing in front of a swiftly assembled backdrop, described by one onlooker as looking like an “abandoned mattress”, the Tory leader laid into the Government’s rise in employers’ national insurance before issu…