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Why a Kemi Badenoch Government Should Scare Us

The Conservative party has lurched to the right under Kemi Badenoch and now has a real chance of winning the next general election. It’s time we started talking about what that would mean

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Adam Bienkov
Nov 14, 2026
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There is a political party in Britain which is committed to a series of policies so extreme that they would make the UK an outlier in all of Europe.

These policies include the withdrawal from the UK’s longstanding international human rights obligations and the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people.

Its frontbench includes politicians who have repeatedly made false claims about foreigners committing sexual offences and accused British Muslims of conspiring to “dominate” our country.

Meanwhile its leader is someone who has spoken about their “ethnic enemies” and suggested that people from certain “cultures” should not be allowed into the UK.

This extreme party is not the BNP, Restore Britain or even Reform UK.

It is the Conservative party. And here’s why we need to start talking about them.

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