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As the new leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch isn’t in truth a winner so much as a survivor. She simply looks like the one who was just the last to lose.
Regardless of their ideological affiliations, most Tory members are surely hoping that their new leader will find a way to put an end to their party’s fractious bouts of in-fighting, and that she or he will, like Ed Davey, discover rather more productive ways to rock the political boat – without capsizing it or trying to stop it.
Sir Keir didn’t start the fire. But it’s his job to put it out before the country can rebuild itself.
Elon Musk and his increasingly virulent platform X have managed to do a great deal to promote and apparently legitimize the views of far-right extremists and criminals.
While keeping themselves at safe distances, Farage, Tate, Yaxley-Lennon and their allies succeeded in mobilizing an army of hate-fueled extremists.
While Sir Keir must be breathing a massive sigh of relief that the Far Right failed to secure its expected victory in France, he will surely be waking up in the middle of most nights in cold sweats at the thought of a Trump triumph in November.
The Conservative party’s shift to the right since Brexit doesn’t currently appear to have helped their long-term electoral prospects any more than their sleazy conduct or their economic incompetence.
As he assumes his place in the Downing Street pantheon, Sir Keir will need to regain his capacity to stand by his beliefs and to take calculated risks, if the country is ever to escape from its current sorrowful state.
It looks like the people might at last be about to run the clowns right out of town.
At some point, it felt that Mr. Sunak had lost control not only of the political narrative but also of his own people.
