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Has Kemi Badenoch failed her first test as Conservative leader?

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Badenoch won 56.6 per cent of the vote, less than Liz Truss2022 total ( 57.3 per cent ), and less still Iain Duncan Smith’s 2001 score ( 60.7 per cent ) The result ( 53,806 vs 41,318) marks the tightest leadership contest in the party's history — going back to 2001 .

Badenoch claimed that the Partygate scandal was “overblown” and that Boris Johnson had fallen into a “trap” of breaking Covid rules that should never have been introduced.

The new Conservative leader is already evincing her capacity for cut-through that supportive Tories so revere.