Is Kemi Badenoch failing as leader of the opposition?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

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4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The new leader of the Conservative party has faced considerable criticism at Westminster and beyond. Is she going to be able to weather the storm? Will Nigel Farage’s Reform destroy her leadership on the launch pad or should the Tories be patient and give her time? Our team discuss Badenoch’s prospects and the implications for British politics.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One with me, Ian Martin, Steve Richards, Miranda Green and Tim Montgomery.
0:19.1	Now this is our second episode of the week and today we're going to talk
0:24.7	about Kemi Badernoch. I always have to try and get that right. Not bad anoch. No bad in her name
0:30.6	she says but is there bad Enoch. It's not bad Enoch. It's not bad Enoch. But is there is her leadership of the Conservative Party going badly?
0:41.5	So we're going to explore that. That's going to lead us a bit also into more general discussion
0:46.0	about the state of the right in the UK and then how the rest of politics, centrist and the left
0:53.0	and new parties respond.
0:54.9	But let's just kick off, come to you first, Tim, on Kemi Badernock.
1:00.7	You think she is failing.
1:03.1	I sound like Trump there.
1:03.8	She's failing.
1:04.3	She's failing so badly.
1:06.5	Well, look, this came up a week or so ago.
1:10.1	The first thing I would say really is,
1:12.5	I think the main problem is the Conservative Party's legacy in government
1:17.0	rather than Kemi Bader not herself.
1:20.6	It's easy to pass over it.
1:22.3	We've gone, you know, it is extraordinarily to me how quickly
1:26.0	and how badly this new Labour government has struggled.
1:29.6	And I think there are wider lessons in that for how difficult it is to govern advanced Western countries at the moment.
1:38.4	But having said that, the failure of the Conservative Party in government was quite extraordinary on a scale.
1:44.9	They had already everything set out for them after the 2019 victory.
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