UK Tories Weigh Badenoch’s Fate as She Fails to Hold Back Farage

Badenoch Blunder as Tories Open Door to Scrapping Pension Triple Lock

Co-conspirators may remember Badenoch's suggestion on LBC back in January that the state pension may be means-tested and the triple lock scrapped. It

Peter Franklin: Why the Badenoch-Jenrick rivalry is without precedent in recent Conservative history

Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd. Last week was a good one for Kemi Badenoch. But this week will be the worst of her political career (so far). Conservative poll ratings are half what they were in 2021, which is when the local seats up for election this Thursday were last contested. Barring a miracle, the party will lose hundreds of councillors and multiple councils. he impending disaster is mostly not of Badenoch’s making, but th…

The Lib Dems’ Middle England revolution

As Kemi Badenoch chases Reform, she is losing her party’s traditional heartlands.

Tory MPs look to remove Kemi Badenoch as local election disaster looms

More than two dozen Tory MPs believe Kemi Badenoch is not the right person to take the party into the next general election and would prefer she be removed sooner rather than later. Bloomberg reports that disgruntled Tories say that Badenoch has failed to hold back Reform UK or close the gap on the Labour Party and after the party suffered its worst defeat in its parliamentary history last year, it is expected to fall yet further behind. With lo…

Conservatives plot replacing Kemi Badenoch as party leader after poor ratings

Kemi Badenoch could be facing the end of her short reign as leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, as internal unrest and crashing poll numbers pile pressure on her leadership ahead of next week’s crucial local elections. The Tories are bracing for heavy losses at the polls, with many members blaming Badenoch for the party’s poor showing just six months after she took over as leader. Polls suggest she has focused on the wrong issues,…

Under ‘Brexit Badenoch’, what is the future of the Conservative Party?

The Tories crave the appearance but not the reality of change, writes Prof Tim Bale. Their current path risks alienating potential voters and party loyalists alike, while aiming for a far-right populist niche comfortably occupied by Farage and Reform UK – and Badenoch the Brexit true-believer is just another a comfort-zone Conservative