Kemi Badenoch Is Stepping Into an Elon Musk Shaped Trap

The Conservative party's embrace of extreme anti-migration rhetoric and a far-right anti-British billionaire are pushing them even further into the political wilderness

The start of 2025 has felt like a particularly grim time for progressives.

The wall-to-wall coverage handed to Elon Musk and Nigel Farage’s vile weaponisation of the grooming gang scandal, and the imminent return of Donald Trump, have contributed to a growing sense that fortune now favours the right, and far right.

But does it really? Because once you look beyond the headlines a rather different picture emerges.

When looked at in this light, far from being on the ascendant, the British right is in reality at its lowest point for years, and only likely to go much lower still.

Here’s why.