Not even the most hardened sceptics can deny the Conservatives’ renewed sense of purpose.
Less than two years after taking over a party still reeling from crushing electoral defeat, Kemi Badenoch has led a remarkable rejuvenation. That she consistently ran rings around Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons was a major factor in initially boosting Tory morale.
But the fact that she has quickly got the measure of his successor has driven the dynamic onwards. In the eleven weeks since Andy Burnham became PM, Mrs Badenoch has unpicked his threadbare policies and empty rhetoric to devastating effect.
The commitments announced by the Conservatives
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