Is Kemi Badenoch too brutal for her own good?
6/24/202643 min
Kemi Badenoch looked like - not for the first time - she was going to make the Chancellor cry in the Commons today. She accused her of treachery and betrayal in her behaviour towards the PM. Badenoch then turned her sights on Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, and accused her of being a spiteful class warrior. Why was the Tory leader so vicious in her seeing off of Keir Starmer and his team? Is this the result of being terminally online? Is it a reflection of a more authentic politics? And if the public disapprove of this discourse why has her popularity seemingly improved?
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Jon Sopel· Host0:35
Kemi Badenoch started off, I thought, with brutal efficiency in the attacks that she launched, and then I think we were all watching it and started to feel a tiny bit uncomfortable. Is this going too far?
Lewis Goodall· Host0:49
He tweeted, "There were gasps amongst us reporters in the press gallery at the sheer brutality of Kemi Badenoch's attack on the Labour cabinet."
Emily Maitlis· Host0:57
Reeves' face was once again, it was a face that was trying not to cry.
Jon Sopel· Host1:00
Kemi Badenoch looks like she's, wears hobnail boots and is tough as nails and all the rest of it, and is a, the, the hard woman of the Conservative Party who's taking the fight to Labour. And so for her supporters, her backbenchers, that looks good. And if you're Bridget Phillipson and you've been called a spiteful class warrior, maybe you wear that badge and think, "Well, there might be good that comes to me."
Lewis Goodall· Host1:23
Spiteful class warrior, actually, I, I don't think is, is, is a big problem. I've heard worse on the, on the floor of the House of Commons. And honestly,