Fresh from discovering that he has been booted out of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, Gavin Barwell has found time to compose a 500-word broadside against Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader withdrew the whip after Barwell repeatedly berated her for pledging to scrap net zero and take Britain out of the ECHR.

In what looks like the start of a purge of the Tory 'wets', Gavin Barwell has been told he will not get the Tory whip back following a leave of absence from the House of Lords.

Kemi Badenoch today set out to prove that she means business when it comes to clearing out the Tory has-beens and wets. The Conservative leader announced that, following a leave…