OPINION - Kemi Badenoch may be part of the 'Evil Plotters' WhatsApp group but she has an audacious plan
by Matthew d'Ancona
Jan 30, 2024
3 minutes
In her maiden Commons speech in 2017, Kemi Badenoch, quoting Woody Allen, said that democracy was like sex: “If it’s not messy, you’re not doing it right”. Seven years on, Conservative politics could hardly be messier.
Touring the studios on Sunday, the Business and Trade Secretary urged those Tories plotting to oust to “”. She had, she told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, phoned Sir , who , and advised the former levelling up secretary to “stop what he was doing”.
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