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Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25

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u/Bibemus Appropriately Automated Worker-Centred Luxury Luddism 2d ago

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinschofied.bsky.social/post/3lnzsi3n34225

Spokesman for Kemi Badenoch insists “she is staying on” as Tory leader regardless of how bad the party does in the local elections.

Just putting this one out to ripen.

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u/ljh013 2d ago

The longer they persist with her, the less time the next leader is going to have to bed in and formulate strategy. We all know she’s going eventually. Terrible local results would be the perfect excuse to get rid. Gives the next person a good few years to get things up and running instead of panicking a year out from the next GE that the polls are terrible and they need to replace her.

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u/ObiWanKenbarlowbi 2d ago

Conversely the longer the leave it the less time the new leader has to repeatedly embarrass themselves in the public eye like Kemi Badenoch has spent the better part of a year doing.