Kemi Badenoch

The idea, proposed by the Tory leader, that people should wait 15 years before being eligible for a passport, is nothing more than crude xenophobia

For Badenoch and other politicians on the right, feminism is now a completed project

The natural party of government is fast becoming an irrelevance at prime minister's questions

How long has the Conservative leader got before her notoriously ruthless party decides they’ve had enough of her?

While her choice of topics has narrowed, her inability to land blows on a PM with a current approval rating of -42 is mindblowing

The Tory leader’s habit of saying what she thinks is refreshing. Her staff’s habit of pretending that she hasn’t said it is dreadful politics

The Tory leader’s big speech was long on waffle and light on content – and it gives Keir Starmer a free run at fixing their mess

The Conservative leader's great gift to the prime minister is the inability to choose a topic and focus on it

The Tory leader did nothing about rape gangs she was the minister responsible, and is only interested now that she thinks there might be votes in it

The billionaire cares nothing for our sovereignty or democracy and must be cut loose

The child grooming scandal, said the Tory leader, was one of the worst in British history. So why had she never mentioned it before?

The PM’s response to the far right billionaire was overdue… but near-perfect

The 12 months ahead are fraught with danger for both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader has given her rival even more free publicity - but she's right to have picked this fight

The Tories’ struggling leader fluffs her lines at prime minister’s questions once again

Forget polling and lifetime party loyalty – all that’s gone. In their place we have a broken system, Reform as the main opposition party, and a growing threat from disinformation

Why does the leader of the Conservative Party have such a disturbing set of role models?

With the prime minister pursuing a string of unpopular policies, the Tory leader used PMQs to focus on things Keir Starmer said years ago

Keir Starmer parries attacks over Louise Haigh by reminding the Tory leader of her party’s reign of shame

Telling small groups of people that they will be taken seriously if only they shout loudly enough is damaging for democracy

A misjudged call for the government’s resignation and a string of lame jokes made for another poor performance from the Tory leader

Westminster reacts in astonishment as Keir Starmer tells a joke and it is actually quite good

In making them a carbon copy of Reform, the new leader of the opposition shows she is neither thoughtful nor serious

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

The new leader of the opposition had her first Commons joust with the PM today and scored a resounding diplomatic victory. Only trouble – it was against Britain

The new Conservative leader appears to recall growing up in a very different Nigeria to the one which existed

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

Our digest of the worst of Westminster welcomes the slippery charmer to the Spectator editor's chair