The Tories faced a difficult election campaign and things aren’t much improving for the party. Now it transpires that Kemi Badenoch used the group’s first shadow cabinet meeting to hit out at ex-PM Rishi Sunak, describing his decision to call an early election as bordering on ‘unconstitutional’. Talk about trouble in paradise…
The shadow housing secretary slammed Sunak for telling an inner circle of the snap election before he informed his cabinet of the plans, blasting his former aide Craig Williams as a ‘buffoon’. And Badenoch didn’t stop there. Going on, the shadow cabinet minister spoke of the former prime minister’s ‘disastrous’ decision to leave D-day commemorations early, blaming Sunak’s choices for the unsuccessful elections of former MPs like Penny Mordaunt. The Tory leadership hopeful turned her attention to other colleagues too – commenting that former home secretary Suella Braverman seemed to be having a ‘very public’ nervous breakdown. Ouch.
While it is thought Badenoch was speaking on behalf of colleagues who lost their seats, the Times reports that not everyone was thrilled by her intervention.
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