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Kemi Badenoch has notched up 100 days as Conservative party leader.
To say she’s celebrating this century would be wrong, though. Marking it, perhaps.
And after a difficult first 100 days, the verdict on Ms Badenoch’s performance could best be described as a work in progress.
When she won the Tory crown on 2 November last year, defeating Robert Jenrick, she said: “It’s time to renew.”
But what’s new just over three months later? Not much, apart from a slump in the opinion polls and Nigel Farage threatening to destroy the Tory Party.
After a very long wait, it was last week that Ms Badenoch unveiled her first policy: a crackdown on immigrants’ right to remain in the UK.
As well as bowing to pressure from critics in her party to announce some policies, it was seen as a response to Reform UK topping a Sky News/YouGov poll for the first time.
On the Sky News Electoral Dysfunction podcast, former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said Ms Badenoch is “running into trouble” and may only have 18 months in the job.
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Back in November, she inherited a party that was…
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