Kemi Badenoch wants to drag the Tories further right. That is a huge mistake | Simon Jenkins

What voters want is a display of reliability and competence – but the current favourite for next leader has other ideas

Politics never ends. Today the selection begins of the leader of the opposition and thus possibly the next British prime minister. The pollsters’ current favourite is Kemi Badenoch. She is intelligent and clearly popular with her party’s grassroots. But the supposedly rightwing stall set out in her manifesto, published in the Times, raises more doubts than it offers answers.

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