Kemi Badenoch’s Tories relishing of Sir Keir Starmer’s mounting humiliation hides an uncomfortable truth: the Conservatives remain perilously vulnerable themselves.
Fresh analysis of the local election results that triggered the crisis in No 10 suggests that, while more than half of Labour’s Cabinet would have lost their seats had the results been replicated in a general election, the Tories would have badly suffered, too.
In Essex alone, six senior Conservatives would have been wiped out, haemorrhaging votes to Reform – including Badenoch herself, shadow housing spokesman Sir James Cleverly, shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel and chief whip Rebecca Harris.
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