Where is Kemi Badenoch’s Tory tent? In a political no man’s land | Rafael Behr
Having refused to learn from Rishi Sunak’s mistakes, the new Conservative leader looks set to repeat a lot of them
Election defeats are to some degree self-inflicted, so the first place that opposition parties should look for someone to blame for their predicament is a mirror. The Conservatives have flinched from that task.
The leadership race over the summer and autumn featured only a performance of reflection on mistakes made by the last government. The looking-glass was positioned askew so no one had to see themselves as part of the problem.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
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