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Kemi Badenoch works a shift at McDonald's
News

Kemi Badenoch mocked over McDonald’s shift

Olivia Barber
11 February, 2026 (2 weeks ago)

‘Back to her working-class roots’

Kemi Badenoch says centrism is no longer welcome in the Tory party
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Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch says

Olivia Barber
29 January, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

‘Moving the Overton window past the edge of a cliff… Ta, Kemi!’

Right-Wing Watch

Why a Tory-Reform pact suits the right-wing press more than either party – for now

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 January, 2026 (5 weeks ago)

Editors may relish the drama, but behind the scenes they must be tearing their hair out as the feud escalates. “Stop fighting each other and end the Labour nightmare,” pleaded the Daily Mail, like a weary parent begging quarrelling children to behave.

Andrew Rosindell has defected to Reform
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Senior Tory MP defects to Reform days after Badenoch ruled out further senior Tory defections

Olivia Barber
19 January, 2026

Andrew Rosindell is the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK

Robert Jenrick
News

Kemi Badenoch sacks Robert Jenrick over his secret plot to defect to Reform UK

Olivia Barber
15 January, 2026

The Tory leader said she was “presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret”

News

Why the Telegraph’s ‘Labour Christmas bonus’ story doesn’t add up

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

To present a frozen £10 payment, worth a fraction of its original value, as indulgence is another example of grievance-mongering dressed up as journalism.

Tory shadow transport secretary Richard Holden on BBC Breakfast
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Journalist picks apart Tories’ ‘confusing’ U-turn on petrol and diesel vehicle ban

Olivia Barber
15 December, 2025

Kemi Badenoch was business secretary when the law came into force

Kemi Badenoch questioned over the Tories' record on grooming gangs
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Kemi Badenoch questioned over the Tories’ record on grooming gangs at ‘alternative inquiry’ launch

Olivia Barber
8 December, 2025

‘Are you saying today that you actually failed in gathering data, […] and that you did leave stones unturned when you were in government?’

Keir Starmer jokes about a potential Tory-Reform pact at PMQs
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Keir Starmer mocks Tory defections to Reform and election pact reports at PMQs

Olivia Barber
3 December, 2025

“An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure.”

Nigel Farage at PMQs
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Nigel Farage mocked for calling the idea he’d work with the Tories “ludicrous”

Olivia Barber
3 December, 2025

Farage claims he wouldn’t work with the Tories, but 21 former Tory MPs have joined his party…

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