Kemi Badenoch has been Tory leader for barely six months.The Tory MP was in despair.“She seems to be getting worse, not better. I’m sad to say that,” the veteran backbencher told HuffPost UK when asked to sum up Kemi Badenoch’s performance as his party’s leader.Barely six months into the job, Conservatives are already speculating about how long Badenoch has left.The local elections on May 1, when the Tories lost more than 670 councillors and Reform UK gained an almost identical number, seems to have been a tipping point for many.“Everybody expected them to be bad, but they were significantly worse than than I and a lot of colleagues expected, which is a big problem,” one former minister said.The opinion polls have also turned against the Tories since the local elections. Whereas before they were neck-and-neck with both Reform and L