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Is Kemi Badenoch too nice to be Tory leader?

19 December 2024

5:40 AM

19 December 2024

5:40 AM

Kemi Badenoch got tough with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs. Not tough enough, but at least she led on a decent issue: old folks in distress. She mentioned the Waspi women and then she changed tack, to wrong foot Sir Kier, and threw him a short but specific question. How many new applications for pension credit have been received since the winter fuel allowance was cut in the budget?

Kemi was better today but she lacks bite

Sir Keir didn’t know.

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