And minds don’t come much smaller than some of those in Westminster. If a researcher had come up with a study that showed one element two points higher in value than countless other experiments, it would almost certainly be marked down either as an outlier or “within the margin of error”. At the very least, no conclusions would be drawn until many other experiments had been conducted which had produced similar results.
Serious scientific journals would just laugh at you if you asked them to publish your findings. In one – just one out of many – recent opinion poll, the Tories have increased their ratings by a couple of points and are now for the first time in years in second place, ahead of Reform. And all of a sudden, Kemi Badenoch is insisting this is incontrovertible proof that the Tories are back in business.
All the sins of its 14 years in government have been wiped clean. All hail to Kemi, the new chief. And the Conservatives are a government-in-waiting.
You need a certain amount of self-confidence to make it as a party leader. Not to say a touch of the Panglossian. The ability to insist all is well when it is turning to shit.
But you can have too much of a good thing. You must at least be within touching distance of reality. And it appears that once again Kemi has jumped the shark.
The one good poll has gone to her head and she now believes she is invincible. Nothing can touch her narcissism. In her early days as Tory leader, Kemi used to crash and burn every week at prime minister’s questions.
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