‘All me’: Tory party riding high on Kemi Badenoch’s wave of popularity

At Conservative conference, some worry about becoming a one-woman party, while others say party should thank their lucky stars they have her

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Kemi Badenoch has long said that the Conservatives were “under new management”, but in a TV interview to mark the end of a party conference at which she has been front and centre of more or less everything, she took the analogy further.

“Your viewers will know that sometimes you have a football team that’s disappointing,” the Tory leader told GB News. “There’s a new captain, there’s a new coach, there’s a new owner, effectively – which is all me.”