Stride dismisses suggestion Badenoch will be ousted as Tory leader next year but admits ‘it’s going to be bumpy’ – UK politics live
Stride dismisses suggestion Badenoch will be ousted as Tory leader next year but admits ‘it’s going to be bumpy’ – UK politics live
In his FT interview Mel Stride , the shadow chancellor, also dismissed speculation that Kemi Badenoch will be replaced as Tory leader within the next year. Many of her colleagues think she will face a successful leadership challenge, most probably after poor results in the Senedd, Scottish parliament and English local elections next May.
Stride said that he thought Badenoch was similar to Margaret Thatcher, who was widely criticised when she became opposition leader in 1975 but who over time developed into an effective leader. He said:
We had all this with Margaret Thatcher back in the 1970s. Her voice wasn’t right, her hair wasn’t right, her dress wasn’t right, she wasn’t very good at prime minister’s questions. It took her some time to work her way into being the finished, formidable politician she was.
Commenting on the prospect of Badenoch being replaced next year, Stride said:
She is incredibly resilient, as cool as they come. She goes away, thinks about it and comes to a decision. I’m very confident Kemi will be fine. But it’s going to be bumpy — it’s going to be difficult.
And while we are on the subject of Zacks, another one, the former environment minister Zac Goldsmith , has joined those Tories criticised Kemi Badenoch’s decision to get rid of the Climate Change Act. In a statment to Politico’s London Playbook , he said the move was “not a mark of an even halfway serious political party”. But Goldsmith also told Politico that it did not matter much because his party was “unlikely” to be in power soon.
In his FT interview Mel Stride , the shadow chancellor, also dismissed speculation that Kemi Badenoch will be replaced as Tory leader within the next year. Many of her colleagues think she will face a successful leadership challenge, most probably after poor results in the Senedd, Scottish parliament and English local elections next May.
Stride said that he thought Badenoch was similar to Margaret Thatcher, who was widely criticised when she became opposition leader in 1975 but who over time developed into an effective leader. He said:
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