THE Tory leader‘s energetic defence of the Jewish community helped her party outperform expectations at Thursday’s local elections, her strategists believe.
Tory HQ pointed to Kemi Badenoch‘s sharp rebuke of a heckler over anti-Semitism, which they believed ‘cut through’ to voters.
At the campaign stop in Essex, Mrs Badenoch said: ‘The people who have died and who’ve been killed are Jewish people in synagogues. Let’s stop pretending that something else is happening.’
In an election marred by rampant anti-Semitism, internal Tory pollsters believe it was a significant moment – and in areas with large Jewish populations, like Barnet, campaigners hailed the ‘Kemi effect’.
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