Kemi is ready to go into battle in her new iron era to detoxify party’s image but early election is last thing she needs

IF a week is a long time in politics, then the past year has been a whole era for Kemi Badenoch. The jury is out on whether this was an Ice Age that saw the Tories locked in the electoral deep freeze, or a Golden Age where an empress vanquished her rivals and flourished. Badenoch...