She is, for those who have forgotten, the latest leader of the Conservative Party, who has failed to make much of a mark since taking over its shattered remnants after last year’s electoral catastrophe.
One Tory MP told The Mail on Sunday that Badenoch thinks she is friends with JD Vance so can influence Trump’s team, which shows incredible naivety – although it explains why she defended the Vice-President when he insulted Britain and our armed forces with his crass “random country” comments earlier this month.
Badenoch seems unsure whether to mimic Trump as a disruptive anti-woke warrior – crusading against bureaucracy, cancel culture, diversity, greenery and migrants – or to defend decency, democracy and unfettered trade.
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As Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with standing in the middle of the road is you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
But he does not just spark problems for traditional conservatives. Trump’s restoration to the White House, followed by his shameful cuddling up to the Kremlin and stop-start trade wars, is tormenting and wrong-footing many of his populist pals while sparking an unexpected resurgence for liberal and left-wing parties in many places.
This has boosted Canada’s incumbent Liberal Party by 23 points in polls – along with a change of leader – after it looked set to be thrashed in next month’s election by Pierre Poilievre, the populist Conservative leader who basked in Elon Musk’s admiration.
There has been a similar, if less dramatic, impact in Australia, which votes five days later.
But as in Britain, most voters have little affinity with Trump; barely one-fifth of Australians would have backed him over Kamala Harris. Now the ruling Labor Party is back in front under its bland prime minister, Anthony Albanese.
Trump has made life difficult also for Georgia Meloni, the Italian leader who strove to shake off her Brothers of Italy party’s fascist roots but now finds herself torn between admiration for Trump’s hard-right populism and allegiance to Europe in a nation where only one in 12 people see the US President as their continent’s friend.
At least the incoming German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, seems to be a conservative who can see the changed world order with his call for new security architecture and acceptance that the US is “largely indifferent to the fate of Europe”.
If the issues were not deadly serious, it would be amusing to watch Boris Johnson’s squirming after declaring that Trump would never betray Ukraine, or Liz Truss posing as a fighter for free trade while sucking up to the “Make America Great Again” crowd.
History will not be kind to those who kowtow to Trump. Yet there is delicious irony in seeing these struggles from politicians who thought that Trump showed them a path to power.
So yes, there is a glimmer of good news amid the gloom.
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