It was all guns blazing from Kemi Badenoch today. The Tory leader has clashed before with the Guardian – most notably during last year’s contest when she lambasted the paper’s claims of ‘bullying and traumatising behaviour’ when serving in government. And the wokest outlet in all the West was firmly in her sights today when Badenoch gave her big economy speech alongside Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride.

At her presser, the Essex MP was asked whether she sympathised with the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who says that she has been called racist slurs and told to go ‘back home’. She said that:

Just this morning, I read this astonishing piece in the Guardian written by someone in this room. It’s absolutely disgusting, and it was basically telling Shabana Mahmood to stay in her lane and

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