Kemi Badenoch

The leader of the opposition was almost invisible in the Commons today – but the real threat to Starmer comes not from the Tories, but from the benches behind him

It was an understandably subdued prime minister’s questions until the Conservative leader reverted to type

Kemi Badenoch doesn’t see Trump’s regime as authoritarian – she sees it as the Conservatives’ blueprint for power

By palling up with populists and parroting their talking points, the leader has taken the Tories down a slippery slope to extremism

The Conservative leader is being tipped for the chop. Fortunately for her it’s by Mystic Nads, British politics’ most reliably hopeless predictor of the future

A diet of topics plucked from the pages of the Daily Mail and Telegraph is leading the Conservative leader down a dead end

The party has lost its identity and risks sliding into obscurity under the rudderless leadership of 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