It has been claimed Kemi Badenoch could start a fight in an empty room.
She’s a combative, confrontational, anti-woke crusader who takes no prisoners – among opposition MPs and even some Tories.
In her article in The Times confirming her leadership bid, Ms Badenoch wrote: “If I have the privilege to serve, we will speak the truth again.”
Speaking the truth – again? That sounds like a claim that under Rishi Sunak the Conservatives have not been telling the truth.
And indeed there’s evidence to support that that’s exactly what she’s alleging.
At the first shadow cabinet meeting after the Tories’ election defeat, she attacked Mr Sunak for his 4 July dash to the polls, according to a leak of her comments.
She was reported to have claimed the D-day debacle cost Tory MPs their seats. And she attacked Suella Braverman for attacking the Tories during the campaign.
Yes, really! There would appear to be no love lost between these two Brexit Boadiceas.
And within minutes of Ms Badenoch’s Times article appearing, Ms Braverman – perhaps predictably – threw in the towel before she even entered the ring.
“I’ve been branded mad, bad and dangerous by my own party – so I will not lead it,” she wrote in The Daily Telegraph, though she claimed she did have the required 10 nominations.
We’ll now never know whether that’s true. But even if she did, she almost certainly wouldn’t have got beyond the first round of voting by MPs.
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