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The Guardian // Politics

Call it the Kemi Badenoch conundrum: it’s why the Tories are going nowhere fast | Henry Hill

Sunday 27th July 2025, 7:00AM

In her attempt to be all things to all people, the leader set off without a policy path. Now she has a party that can’t agree which way to goKemi Badenoch’s reshuffle of the shadow cabinet this week fell between two stools. It was not a de minimis reorganisation to account for the departure of Edward Argar from the health portfolio as a result of illness, but nor was it the sort of “big bang” restructure that might have lent her leadership a sense of renewed momentum.I have heard few serious complaints about the appointments she did make, though a few – such as the removal of Jack Rankin, a close ally of Robert Jenrick, from his justice brief and his replacement with the Badenoch supporter Ben Obese-Jecty – have prompted some eye-rolls.Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome Continue reading...

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