Kemi: Never Wrong

The Tory leader invariably finds events vindicate her

“A lot of people had given all sorts of opinions,” Kemi Badenoch told us, discussing the horrible murder of Henry Nowak. “Some have tried to score political points.” Not something the Conservative leader was going to do. Far from it! Though we would learn that she did in fact have some opinions, and indeed was about to argue that the teenager’s death proved she had been right all along.

I don’t want to make it sound like Badenoch was being cynical. Her speech on Tuesday morning at the Institute for Government opened with a description of how shocked she had been by the case, and we should take her at her word. It is simply that, by happy chance, the Tory leader always finds that whatever just happened has proved her right. Her self-confidence is ironclad. Had she been in charge on the Titanic, she would still have been insisting that the iceberg had come off worse as the waters closed over her head.

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