Kemi Badenoch sinks further into the mire

Kemi Badenoch brutally mocked after claiming she ‘gets better every week’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is being brutally mocked after yet another disastrous performance at Prime Minister’s Questions, in which she claimed she ‘gets better every week’. During a heated clash with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the winter fuel allowance and taxes, Badenoch told the Commons: “I get better every week, he gets worse”. Her claim prompted laughter across the Commons, before Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to intervene to rest…

Kemi Badenoch sinks further into the mire

“Here for the funeral?” asked the man in the seat next to me. Short, stout, bearded, behatted, pot-bellied: he looked just like a garden gnome. We were in the Duchess Theatre, Covent Garden, home of the pre-theatre set menu, luvvie-land. What the gnome called “the funeral” – and what we might call the “oooooffft, not again” or the “should she really have that job?” or the “why does she keep doing this to herself?” – belonged to Kemi Badenoch, fo…