After the budget there should have been easy wins for Badenoch at PMQs but the Tory leader just can’t help herself
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n days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ. Overwhelmed by all the different smells she can pick up on her walkies. Convinced that this is going to be THE BEST DAY EVER. Spoilt for choice as she is surrounded by countless enticing sticks. Yet somehow she always manages to grab the wrong end of every one. I suppose you could call that her special talent.
There were any number of angles on the budget Kemi could have chosen at prime minister’s questions. The chancellor’s promise in last year’s budget that she wouldn’t be coming back with more tax increases this time round would have been a start. Rachel Reeves had even made a commitment not to make further freezes to the tax thresholds. All this might have made for a tricky session for Keir Starmer, who is trying to convince us all that last year’s budget never happened. That we have started from a new ground zero.
And yet. And yet Kemi just can’t help herself. She is a sucker for any conspiracy theory going. The wilder the better. It’s what X was made for. Night after night, scrolling through social media for inspiration. So what we got from the leader of the opposition was madness. Though, like many people, she assumes it is the rest of the world who are crazy. At one point she suggested Reeves was in “la-la land”. Pots and kettles.
