The Tory leader gave an address that was full of candour about her party’s failures. You can sense Nigel Farage’s delightWell, finally. Only eight years on from kneecapping the economy and crowing “you lost, get over it” at anyone impertinent enough to notice, a Conservative party leader has tacitly admitted the painfully obvious: Brexit was an act of wilful negligence by a government that dragged Britain out of its most important trading relationship “before we had a plan for growth outside the EU”. There wasn’t a considered Plan B, just a government frantically trying to catch itself up as it went along. And that’s only the start of it, Kemi Badenoch argued this week, in the first interesting thing the Conservative party has had to say to the nation since its bone-crushing defeat.Successive Conservative governments dating back to David Cameron’s had promised to get immigration down but hadn’t thought through how to do that either, she pointed out, and consequently achieved the opp...
The Guardian's Gaby Hinsliff argues that Kemi Badenoch's recent speech, while candid about the Conservative Party's failures, rings hollow and marks a sign of internal panic.
Hinsliff highlights Badenoch's admission that Brexit was poorly planned and detrimental to economic growth, and her critique of successive Conservative governments' inadequate solutions to immigration control. She posits that these honest criticisms, coming after years of denial and blaming others, suggest the party is rattled by its recent loss and desperate to appear serious about its shortcomings.
The Guardian's Gaby Hinsliff argues that Kemi Badenoch's recent speech, while candid about the Conservative Party's failures, rings hollow and marks a sign of internal panic. Hinsliff highlights Badenoch's admission that Brexit was poorly planned and detrimental to economic growth, and her critique of successive Conservative governments' inadequate solutions to immigration control. She posits that these honest criticisms, coming after years of denial and blaming others, suggest the party is rattled by its recent loss and desperate to appear serious about its shortcomings.
