Tory leadership race: Badenoch 'the one to beat' and Braverman 'dead in the water'

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Tory leadership race: Badenoch 'the one to beat' and Braverman 'dead in the water'

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"Looking at the current state of play, Kemi Badenoch is probably the one to beat."
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are the current frontrunners in the race for Tory leader, says Henry Hill, editor of Conservative Home.
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@paulburton9386 Ай бұрын

Let's just close the Tories and file them under Bad Memories and move on!

@jaisriram295 Ай бұрын

Well given they got 24% of the popular vote and reform got 14% of the popular vote made up mainly of people who voted Tory in 2019 your comment is nonsensical 😂

@user-vz7sn9hh9d Ай бұрын

Within 3 months people will filing this circus fresh into town as a veritable nightmare. First illegals land at Dover one hour ago.

@TimComley Ай бұрын

Pop your ego away son

@stevewilson6390 Ай бұрын

Really? Nigel is courting lots of Tory MPs. Lee Anderson is a MP already. Suella Bravermanhas been asked to cross over, Kemi Badenoch as been mentioned. In fact centre to centre right Concervative are more than welcome in the Reform party. To many people took their eye off the ball and we now have a Labour government by default and if you think the situation is bad now you just watch our country sink in to the sewer under this marxist woke shower we have in now. Unfortunately the famous five of the Reform party wont change anything the reason being they dont have the numbers so dont have any power.

@sugoidessho Ай бұрын

Do you have a poster of David Lammy or Diane Abbott on your bedroom wall?

@rogston39 Ай бұрын

I honestly don't think the Tories realize how much contempt there is for them.

@henryblunt8503 Ай бұрын

Yes. They're consoling themselves with the notion that Labour's support is wide but not deep, but seem unable to process the fact that opposition to the Tory Party is broader *and* deeper.

@garymitchell5899 Ай бұрын

@@henryblunt8503Labour's support is inded wide but not deep and if they fail, the electorate is very likely to go for the next viable alternative - the Conservatives. That's not an unreasonable consolation.

@pip1723 Ай бұрын

I've every faith in the new government but expecting results overnight won't happen undoing 14 year's of Tory austerity and incompetence will take some doing but ditching the Rwanda scheme is a great start .

@rogston39 Ай бұрын

@@henryblunt8503 Yes, you are spot on there.

@henryblunt8503 Ай бұрын

@@garymitchell5899 Only when they've forgotten enough of the last 14 years.

@georgemullens Ай бұрын

Braverman, Badenoch and Jenrick are absolutely terrible.

@TBrl8 Ай бұрын

The tories are in big trouble. Farage looms large and the right and left of the conservative movement are as far apart as ever.

@vaseline69 Ай бұрын

I think if Braverman doesn't get the job, Reform will have 6 MPs

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

bottom feeders all three of them

@edwardrodbourne8361 Ай бұрын

They are not that good...

@user-bu9nb8wr6e Ай бұрын

They are perfect then 😂😂😂😂

@user-rw5xx7ct8c Ай бұрын

Yesterday's people. No longer relevant.

@TimComley Ай бұрын

Bot

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

True

@suttercane6 Ай бұрын

Reform will rise from the Tory ashes!

@jayr9952 Ай бұрын

Kemi could begin an argument in an empty room.

@vaseline69 Ай бұрын

as a liberal I am praying she becomes the leader

@vercoda9997 Ай бұрын

"Oh no I couldn't!" she shouted, locked by herself in an otherwise empty room.

@martinahardaker8739 Ай бұрын

When she gets up, every morning there's a 20 minute argument...then she realises she's looking in the mirror..

@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Ай бұрын

@@spicy_ketchup I didn't notice she's black, but I noticed she's arrogantly privileged.

@spartybrearly7221 Ай бұрын

Could she? She said very little as a cabinet minister.

@lazslostpierre9951 Ай бұрын

Suella Braverman, the worst ever attorney general (you wouldn't use her to do your house conveyancing), worst ever home secretary, may as well go for the worst ever leader of the Tory party, though a hard one to achieve given Johnson and Truss.

@judithdavidson2356 Ай бұрын

Absolutely correct. What appalling people

@randhirsharma3870 Ай бұрын

@@lazslostpierre9951 Suella only good thing she is married to a Jew .I am partial because I have Jewish friends who are excellent

@ianinkster2261 Ай бұрын

Suella is the only Tory home secretary who attempted to do her job rather than act as an ornament, and was punished for it.

@pip1723 Ай бұрын

Couldn't care less we've only just got shut of them I've had enough of the tory leadership pantomime personally.

@user-vz7sn9hh9d Ай бұрын

And the people will not put up with what this lot has in store. Watch this space.

@pip1723 Ай бұрын

@@user-vz7sn9hh9d why what's in store a better run country ?and a government working for the people ....I'll take it .

@jonathonjubb6626 Ай бұрын

Badenoch will ensure Labour get a second term...

@tariq_sharif Ай бұрын

.... and the racists of Reform never return to the Tories

@serenth8310 Ай бұрын

Labour will get a second term regardless. They just need to choose someone who can do a good job at attacking Labour. Badenoch is bull headed enough to actually do this and might be a good option for the tories, though i say this highly disliking them...

@davidcjupp Ай бұрын

@@serenth8310 Starmer has got at least 6 years of 'pipe down, you made a pigs ear of everything for 14 years and now we're cleaning up your mess.'

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

that's a positive 🙂

@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Ай бұрын

Labour will defo benefit from the EXTENSIONS.

@ipohtennischannel5482 Ай бұрын

I think we're all getting a bit bored with this now...

@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Ай бұрын

The British Media is obsessed with the impossible notion of reviving the Tory Party.

@Sausage1958 Ай бұрын

Braverman could always get a job as Rwandas Officer for tourism she thinks so highly of the country.

@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo Ай бұрын

Tory’s are history for at least a decade 😁👍🏻

@geofo60 Ай бұрын

We can but hope

@pip1723 Ай бұрын

At least .

@jaybee4288 Ай бұрын

I think they could turn it around in 5 years. Starmers vote is extremely shallow and Labour are unlikely to make much difference in that time. But for them to turn it around they’ve got to get rid of these 3 and grab one of the more sane Tory MPs that wasn’t implicit in the last 14 years. They basically need to do what Starmer did in 2019, full restructure, kick out the bad apples. Which they seem scared to do.

@melgrant7404 Ай бұрын

@@jaybee4288agree.

@Rancid-wd3ty Ай бұрын

Another Tory clown show restarts, whose gonna be next to lead the 121 MP,s sat in their tiny little corner of parliament whingeing from the sidelines,haha.

@jaisriram295 Ай бұрын

Until 2029 when they combine to kick out Starmer if the left of his party don't do it first 😂

@Rancid-wd3ty Ай бұрын

@@jaisriram295 yea right.

@pip1723 Ай бұрын

Farage 5seats lol

@AlanDevOps Ай бұрын

Irrelevant. These are not serious people.

@JT-si6bl Ай бұрын

They are not even people.

@pastyman001 Ай бұрын

Badenoch is incredibly arrogant but does not have the ability to back it up. He description of the trade deals were incoherent.

@FionaJane-vc2tw Ай бұрын

Whoever it is they won't win in 5 years time. We are all sick of toxic politicians.

@davidhall7744 Ай бұрын

Im almost as mystified as I was when Liz Truss emerged as a leadership candidate now that Bad-enough is being touted. Is there something i’m missing? Everytime I see Bad-enough speak, it consists of nothing more than a blethering load of nonsense, pure word salad. I’m I alone in feeling this?

@jananders1351 Ай бұрын

The inability to think rationally and speak in coherent sentences are requirements not obstacles in Tory world.

@grahamdhv3812 Ай бұрын

I also think that. She is very superficial and doesn't deal in detail. Pretty thick really; similar to Truss.

@matthewsemple Ай бұрын

All these things are linked... The Tories sold off the council stock and prevented councils from rebuilding. Most of these houses are now in the hands of private landlords so this and nimbyism has caused housing costs to rocket. So many younger people cannot afford to buy a house and couples are having less children (see also cancelled services, closed libraries, lack of nursery places and Gove cancelling the new schools building programme). Therefore the birthrate has collapsed and the workforce is shrinking so employers, desperate for staff, seek to recruit from overseas. And no, it's not foreigners stealing all the jobs, pushing down wages and simultaneously claiming benefits and getting free access to the NHS.

@jonesyjones7626 Ай бұрын

Not true. Where I live the neighbouring GP practice is overwhelming serving immigrants. Mass migration suppresses wages in every country it happens and facilitates employers not training staff.

@matthewsemple Ай бұрын

@@jonesyjones7626 one GP practice is only anecdotal evidence. However it remains true that the requirement for immigration has been fuelled by the other government cuts I have outlined.

@melgrant7404 Ай бұрын

Agree.council only sold off housing to pass on the maintenance costs.

@grahamdhv3812 Ай бұрын

@@jonesyjones7626do you where they were born? Right wing bilge again.

@bryangeake5826 Ай бұрын

"Looking at the current state of play, Kemi Badenoch is probably the one to beat." question is, what with?

@suewilkinson910 Ай бұрын

A wet Mackrell would do nicely. Horrible woman. For a time I started to think I'd turned into a racist as I looked at that government. I was worried because I never had been before but I had nothing but disdain and hatred for them. Braverman, Badenoch, Cleverly, although interestingly not Sunak. I thought he was a twit with a bad temper and no clue, but he didn't make me feel they way the other 3 did. Then the miracle happed and we have David Lammy as Foreign Secretary and I felt safer and happy because he's a good man and has been a good MP and is a great orator. I don't know Shabana Mahmood, but you only have to look at her to know she's going to be good. And I realised I'm not racist at all, I just hated them because the brown Tories seem to be even worse than the white variety.

@bryangeake5826 Ай бұрын

@@delfine7163 That sounds like nationalism, we are a multi-cultural country made from waves of immigtation for 1,000s of years. So, who are the 'British'? For my money anyone who was born here or in the Commonwealth that moved here, and that's Modern British, the Roman DNA is still here, as is Nordic (Viking), African (many Roman's were African), Asian etc. So, why should that evolution suddenly cease?

@grahamdhv3812 Ай бұрын

@@delfine7163heard that about the Brexit con. Didn't go well.

@jablot5054 Ай бұрын

@@delfine7163 so you want to empty the hospitals of staff , get rid of carers ,taxi drivers etc. Britain is made from immigrants.

@yvonnemason9137 Ай бұрын

I notice that, in the clip of Rishi Sunak giving his 'I'm resigning as Prime Minister' speech, his wife is standing behind him, conspicuously carrying a large umbrella! Hmm, I wonder why that is! 🤣

@kevinwilde Ай бұрын

all extremely right - wing prejudiced against people who are less fortunate in life. the British public deserves a well earned rest from these individuals. support left - wing true Labour.

@jonesyjones7626 Ай бұрын

And their open borders, no thanks.

@stuartryan610 Ай бұрын

Not too far left.

@31Blaize Ай бұрын

Badenoch has even less self-awareness than Sunak and is far tetchier. Watching her at PMQs will likely not do the Tories any favours. Pick her!

@stansalt3198 Ай бұрын

Tricky choices, they all look as if they would sell their Granny to the highest bidder.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

they sure would

@michaelstanley3961 Ай бұрын

Like "Cats in a sack". Trouble is Farage is holding the sack.....and will no doubt drown the winner.

@markdawson4625 Ай бұрын

What choice!!!! It’s like asking which STI would you prefer. Where are the moderate Tories?

@michaelkemp6857 Ай бұрын

Are there any?

@user-ee1zb1fn3y Ай бұрын

The moderate Tories? The wets masquerading as Tories? LibDems with blue ties? They re all absorbing having their arses kicked for betraying their voters.

@cupguin Ай бұрын

Assuming Badenoch keeps her seat. The number of undelivered postal ballots might still come back to haunt certain current MPs.

@davidleatham5173 Ай бұрын

Who leads the tories is irrelevant as they'll be in opposition for at least the next 10 years.

@TimComley Ай бұрын

Another expert🙄

@davidleatham5173 Ай бұрын

@@TimComley Well you shouldn't need to be an expert to realise that the leader of the opposition is the irrelevance in chief. Particularly when the government has an overwhelming majority. 😳

@johnmartin7158 Ай бұрын

How many leaders have they had now.

@jaybee4288 Ай бұрын

@davidleatham5173 The majority is rather wet, in some places we’re talking less than 100 votes and many are almost neck a neck. Labour didn’t really increase their vote share by much if at all, the Conservative and SNP vote simply collapsed. With that in mind, if they can get those votes back it can quickly see saw. I doubt Labour will go 5 years without a few dramas. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Tory but it’s foolish to write them off. Their biggest enemy is each other not Starmer, I can see them all devouring themselves to become Tory leader and that will keep them out for some time to come.

@johnmartin7158 Ай бұрын

@@jaybee4288 Tories need a leader that can unite the factions. Not necessarily charisma or populism.

@gareth7574 Ай бұрын

I was against the Tories before it was 'cool'. That said, for the country's good, I hope the Tories can reset the clock by at least 15 years. Forget anyone who has been in government since Cameron. In my opinion, Suella and Priti need to be gone from the halls of power for good.

@diogenesagogo Ай бұрын

What was that remark about Reform not removing racist candidates? Where is the evidence for that please?

@johncarroll5178 Ай бұрын

Whenever any Tory talking about the new leader says they want to 'reflect' I immediately hear the word 'plot'.

@therealbettyswollocks Ай бұрын

Badenoch will be the Michael Foot of the Tories, albeit without the brains of Michael Foot.

@annishilcock4587 Ай бұрын

Everyone is gripped by? You may be but then you seem to be obsessed with the Tories...the electorate isn't anymore

@davidthomson4102 Ай бұрын

Who cares, you had you chance and you gave us Boris and Liz….. go away and regroup, come back when you’ve grown up

@cpt-420 Ай бұрын

we dont care

@GerryT. Ай бұрын

Oh dear, as if it coulldnt get any worse for the Tories they are gonna make Badenoch leader. Of it was based on ignorance and arrogance she would easily win. I look forward to Starmer making mincemeat of her at PMQs, because she really isnt very bright

@captainnice1881 Ай бұрын

Starmer making mincemeat 😂😂 Leave centrist dad barbeques to Ed Davey.

@brianferguson7840 Ай бұрын

The sun has risen on a freshly laundered Labour country. Ahh, the smell of freshly baked Thick sliced Competence, generously spread with integrity !

@PassiveAgressive319 Ай бұрын

Hear! Hear!

@suewilkinson910 Ай бұрын

They answer questions from the press!

@jaybee4288 Ай бұрын

Wes Streeting. David Lammy. Jackie Smith. Angela Rayner. It’s not all perfect.

@Creatordave Ай бұрын

What sickly nonsense. Labour opposed Tory attempts to liberalise planning as a 'developers charter', and now expect us to believe they are they are the YIMBY party. Labour decried the Tories as high-tax, and are are now planning tax hikes. Labour negotiated for the defection of a senior civil servant from Whitehall to them at a time this civil servant was supposed to be impartially judging their political opponent. Keir Starmer has never shown any contrition for supporting Jeremy Corbyn, nor for trying to bounce the government into a damaging and pointless fourth lockdown, nor for 'beergate'. Labour demonstrated neither competence nor honour during their time in opposition.

@derekmab7734 Ай бұрын

We should invent this expression: "3 cheeks of the same backside".

@christieomojo Ай бұрын

Ive personally never got the Kemi hype, she doesn't have much experience and has a similar personality to rishi totally flat. They really need someone who has personality that can warm to voters.

@Psmith-ek5hq Ай бұрын

Like who?

@lesterfalcon1350 Ай бұрын

I keep hearing Tories saying that they are the centre, or the party needs to regain the centre. When have Tories ever been the centre?

@michaelkemp6857 Ай бұрын

Far right of Adolf!!

@user-ee1zb1fn3y Ай бұрын

@@michaelkemp6857No, I think you ll find they re lefties with blue ties on. Name a conservative policy they actually carried out.

@grahamdhv3812 Ай бұрын

Only Rory Stewart can move and change the Tories now, but he will have to go into the Lords, the others will lead them down a deep rathole. Tories have said they need to appeal to Lib Dem voters and Reform ones. That's simply impossible.

@trevellyanblack4101 Ай бұрын

The Conservatives lost because they held their voters in complete contempt. By 2016, they'd became self-obsessed and introspective, huddled in corners plotting against each other, this translated to they lost the ability to govern.

@janetharry2615 Ай бұрын

I’ve just seen Suellas speech and it was spot on, she described why conservatives left the party and it was exactly correct. In my opinion anyone who doesn’t agree with it is just going to prolong the disaster.

@MarkInOxford Ай бұрын

Kemi is certainly Badenough to lead the Tories in to oblivion.

@rolstonholas333 Ай бұрын

Sunak’s wife’s dress is making my monitor go funny

@melgrant7404 Ай бұрын

Looks like she got run over by a truck 😅 the pattern looks like tyre tread marks.

@melgrant7404 Ай бұрын

Like tyre treads.

@jananders1351 Ай бұрын

What a bunch of irresponsible clowns, they had 14 years to listen to the electorate. But they chose not to. Now all these wise people who were complicit in the Tory lurch to the far right by their silence, have found themselves ejected from the gravy train.

@camberleysunseeker9540 Ай бұрын

The problem is that the 165000 right wing members of the Tory party will vote them in. They did it for Truss and look where that ended

@davidk7262 Ай бұрын

Imagine that, the stirrer in chief of the culture wars being the top candidate. Expect more and more division, US style if she makes it to the hot seat.

@kicka11 Ай бұрын

All 3 are beyond hopeless. 2 are fascists and the other is a teaboy.

@pinkpanther7030 Ай бұрын

Which one is a teaboy😂

@brianfreeman8290 Ай бұрын

If the Tories really want to recover, they need a NEW face. These options are most of the reason they got booted out !

@for111 Ай бұрын

He specifically said it was too early to call it dead in the water...

@muirislandjim453 Ай бұрын

Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch is a liar and a bully

@mufflejoy Ай бұрын

The corrupt opportunistic egos of the Tories is big part of their downfall. Braveman will keep that legacy humming along.

@user-vo7io1rz1r Ай бұрын

The Conservative Party has a self-destruction button. How many are likely to die in the explosion?

@robduncan599 Ай бұрын

What will the new leader do , keep trying to out Reform, Reform? That bound to be a winning formula? Right ?

@sydnorth5868 Ай бұрын

It doesn't matter who the next Tory leader is. I've been saying for some time that the next Tory Prime Minister isn't even an MP yet.

@nigelhart3897 Ай бұрын

Who cares?

@VapeandJuiceTV Ай бұрын

People who like not to live in an elective dictatorship and appreciate an opposition at all times regardless of the colour rosette of the ruling politburo. As members of society we needed Labour to be a tough opposition and now we need someone competent to challenge the actions of the new government. Businesses have QA and people need it to with politics.

@wiltonfarm4816 Ай бұрын

Tories are now finished. They still do not get why no one wants them.

@davejlboy4505 Ай бұрын

Wow ..what talent .the bad the vile and the disgraceful .choose any order .

@johnmacdonald6698 Ай бұрын

Who in Gods name would want to be leader of that Mob?

@vercoda9997 Ай бұрын

If picking nauseatingly callous, cruel people like Those to punch down at the poor and marginalised is the best that the Tories can do, offering nothing other than a message of hate and division, then long, long, long may the Tories' exile endure.

@jonaverage9771 Ай бұрын

The final nail in the coffin..

@mikewilson8513 Ай бұрын

Dear God, the worst election result for the Tories, and they are going to elect one of the big reasons for that humiliation.

@user-bu9nb8wr6e Ай бұрын

Any one of those 3 in the picture would be perfect if you are a reform, lib dem or labour voter.

@Matthew-bu7fg Ай бұрын

this ex-Sherwood Forest MP would make a better leader than most the MPs going for it

@pj1471 Ай бұрын

Suella Braverman’s problem is Suella Braverman. Sooner she leaves the Centre Right Conservative Party the better.

@elvisnnaemeka6722 Ай бұрын

If Suella braverman isn't elected, the Tory party is over. Reform will grow stronger

@robinstevenson6690 Ай бұрын

I'm extremely unimpressed by Mr. Cleverly, whom I don't find the least bit clever. If the Tories are relying on him for leadership, they are in very sorry shape indeed.

@johnramsden1277 Ай бұрын

No hope for the Tories if this is one of them!

@stuartryan610 Ай бұрын

They don't have any credible person who could do the job. What they do have is a group of people who are in it for the money. Simples.

@SK-sm9mn Ай бұрын

Henry Hill is a good fella

@stanwoltynski4153 Ай бұрын

If Badenoch becomes the leader the Conservative Party is completely finished

@cosmosadorabilis7677 Ай бұрын

Sorry but I don't believe Breverman is dead in the water. I wish this was true, but her brand of hatred is mad popular right now.

@realsmuu1046 Ай бұрын

How are they finding new depths of the bottom to scrape!

@paulwiley8902 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure Badenoch would have enough support country wide to lift the Tories if I'm honest..

@user-bu9nb8wr6e Ай бұрын

Sunak with the gambling cheat 😂😂😂😂😂

@antonypjones Ай бұрын

Tugendhat, best of a bad bunch

@willrothwell9221 Ай бұрын

Any semblence of competence was purged from the party by Johnson for not being Brexity enough. Let them delude themselves for as long as possible.......

@foppo101 Ай бұрын

Excellent these lovely women should go for it.That means they never be back yes go for it lady's.

@John-uz4zv Ай бұрын

The Tories are the pits .

@user-oz3sz6vx5v Ай бұрын

This reminds me of jungle politics.

@tommytippy4448 Ай бұрын

The only Tory worth a vote is Suella, but I'll still vote Reform myself now,been scammed by the lying Tories once,never again.

@marksimons8861 Ай бұрын

Ms Braverman is completely out of the running. Even the Tories wouldn't want a traitress as their leader, would they?

@serpentinefire77 Ай бұрын

Cruella has definitely had conversations with the Reform leadership about their mutual political goals.

@stevecoppin6396 Ай бұрын

a very able demonstration of why they are out , still cloth eared and blaming everyone but themselves

@christieomojo Ай бұрын

The need to go with a fresh face that isnt connected to Brexit, Boris, Truss and and all the other disasters.

@catherinemartin6258 Ай бұрын

She’ll be like another rishi Sunak useless

@JT-si6bl Ай бұрын

Let's stay real: 14 years of lessons say that what's delivered to the public is for the worst, from the worst. So your party needs a leader that chatters with fast teeth like they are in a different universe, speaks with some sort of authority to themselves, has a huge ego, maybe even flashes their own eyelids to be a self-strobing epileptic trigger, and a possible *optional* drug issue. Enter the lovely Kimi. Then watch the party implode. Again.

@Tom_murray89 Ай бұрын

I feel the tories will be out of power for a long time

@nl4064 Ай бұрын

when your opposition all agree they dont want to face Kemi Badenoch and your membership overwhelming want Kemi Badenoch. its clear she shouldbe leadewr and future PM

@RANDYSWELLBURG Ай бұрын

Badenoch is so thick and unpleasant I almost hope she wins the leadership. It will keep the tories out of power for longer.

@spartybrearly7221 Ай бұрын

Badenoch has no charisma, Braverman and Patel are incompetent, Cleverly is empty rhetoric, Jenrick is nondescript and Tom Tugen…whatever his name is? isn’t a household name in his own household.

@spartybrearly7221 Ай бұрын

If the Tories want a new leader who will push Farage onto the sidings then Badenoch is the wrong choice. She comes across as bland, boring and irrelevant.

@andrewbogle3350 Ай бұрын

The ensuing Tory leadership contest is like bald men fighting over a comb.

@carollteisar4356 Ай бұрын

Nobody talks about mtg rates Most tory voters are indifferent to the problems of people less well off . Can it be that chickens have come home to roost via interest rates ?