Does anything remain of Starmerism?
Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport
ByKemi Badenoch
What we learned at PMQs: George Robertson has done Keir Starmer no favours
Kemi Badenoch used all six of her questions to hammer Starmer on the Labour peer’s criticisms about defence spending
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Kemi Badenoch wants to be Britain’s Peter Magyar
The Tory leader hopes to attack the right while remaining extraordinarily right-wing
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Kemi Badenoch’s missed opportunity
The Tories’ preoccupation with China made them miss an open goal
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Kemi Badenoch’s strange speech on Iran and the by-election
The Tory leader attempted to fuse the two subjects together
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Looking for a “Kemi Bounce” in Gorton and Denton
The Conservative Party is not recovering. But its opponents are just as trapped
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Reform is looking beatable
The party is losing rather than gaining popularity – but can Labour benefit?
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Kemi Badenoch needs centrists to win
There isn’t space for two parties on the populist right
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Why Kemi Badenoch flopped on Desert Island Discs
The Leader of the Opposition chose songs of simple ambition
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The British right’s Trump problem
For conservatives, the president is an electoral albatross
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What we learned from PMQs: Badenoch feuds with Starmer over foreign policy
What does the Chagos deal have to do with Greenland anyway?
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Is there a strategy behind Kemi’s Jenrick purge?
She cannot decide whether to rebuild or remake the Conservative Party
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What we learned from PMQs: Starmer is suffering U-turn overwhelm
The latest about-turn on digital ID handed Badenoch ample ammunition
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What’s behind the Tories’ poll bounce?
Voters’ rightwards drift on tax and spend is aiding Kemi Badenoch
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Starmer has failed to stand up for his own principles
2026: Already a big year for impotent political handwringing
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The route to Tory recovery
Kemi Badenoch is benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
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Should Labour fear a Reform-Tory pact?
Deal or no deal, the risk for Starmer is that a united right beats a divided left
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Back-bench MPs issue a Keirless whisper
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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PMQs review: Labour briefing wars hand Kemi Badenoch an easy win
When the Prime Minister tried to insist his team was “united”, the House descended into chaos
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How long does Kemi Badenoch have?
Recent polling by Deltapoll found that just 38 per cent of Brits could recognise her in a photograph
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