Kemi Badenoch has written a column for the Sunday Times which given how (unwittingly) entertaining it is will hopefully be one of a series.
She reassures that she supports the ‘rule of law’ which might be thought to be a given for a Tory leader. However she does not support the rule of all laws because there are ‘well organised interest groups that bring strategic litigation’. She really means that the law prevents politicians doing just whatever they like, which is perhaps one reason why its there.
In her concluding paragraphs she returns to one of Liz Truss’s favourit obsessions, ‘The Blob’ she argues that politicians including Tory politicians like herself created it. The problem according to Badenoch is that it ‘rewards managerialism among Ministers, as reliably steering a department clear of legal challenges.
One might think its good thing that Government Departments don’t do things that break the law but in the world of Badenoch and Trump perhaps not.
So much of what they do and say is a contradiction in terms but hey ho. I recommend ‘Striking 13’ on Substack in respect of contemporary politics.