HISTORICAL FACTS: 13 - The Untold Story

Farage may have won the battle for Clacton, but he’s losing the country

ANALYSIS : Reform leader forced a by-election to try to escape a political crisis but may simply have postponed, and even intensified, the inevitable, writes Kate Devlin

The Independent UK · Aug 14

New poll shows Kemi Badenoch gaining popularity

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The Independent UK · Aug 13

Kemi Badenoch’s popularity is rising – but voters still unconvinced by Tory party, new poll shows

There is a belief that the Conservatives ‘have not learned their lessons’, researchers say

The Independent UK · Aug 13

Badenoch demands ‘rigorous enforcement’ after ‘litany of failures’ in Levy case

The Tory leader described murderer Simon Levy as a ‘modern-day Jack the Ripper’.

Evening Standard · Aug 8

A ‘Keminaissance’ for the Tories is wishful thinking – Badenoch’s Reform-lite summer will only end one way

Hiring a convicted antisemite as an adviser; rabble rousing at a time of violent unrest. She is still in a race to the bottom and making too many mistakes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7

It must be tricky for Farage to remember what’s what. It’s so hideously complicated

I can’t pass up the moment the Reform leader celebrates his byelection victory against ‘the establishment’ – a man with a dustbin on his head

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7

Kemi Badenoch’s weird week: defence of ex-neo-Nazi raises questions over Tory direction

Some in party are delighted by leader’s tack rightwards but opponents have savoured latest Conservative controversy

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7

Kemi Badenoch warned against inflaming Thetford unrest with threat to evict foreign nationals from social homes

Asylum seekers were forced to flee as disorder in the town continued for a third night

The Independent UK · Aug 7

Voices: ‘Trying to out-Reform Reform’: Readers slam Tories’ social housing ‘eviction’ plan

YOUR VIEWS: Kemi Badenoch says barring foreign nationals from social housing – evicting existing tenants within six months and blocking new arrivals – could free up 230,000 homes. Our community say the Conservatives’ own record on housing, from Right to Buy to years of under-building, undermines that claim

The Independent UK · Aug 7

When is the Clacton by-election? Nigel Farage’s showdown with Count Binface is soon

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The Independent UK · Aug 7