Idiot Voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
One of the things a leader of the opposition needs is a theory about why their party lost the last election. Tony Blair thought Labour had seemed anti-aspiration; David Cameron thought the Tories had seemed weird. Keir Starmer had, well, Jeremy Corbyn. Kemi Badenoch, it is becoming clear, has concluded that the voters are morons.
She walked into the House of Commons on Wednesday and took her seat next to Chris Philp, who turns out to be the Shadow Home Secretary. He has the air of a particularly angry stoat, one that spent all morning hunting a shrew only to lose it just before lunch. Such is his love of country that he was wearing Union Jack socks. And perhaps Union Jack underpants, too, though thankfully the press escaped that revelation.