Badenoch needs to show more fighting spirit

Sir, Fraser Nelson (“Badenoch’s rope-a-dope is panicking Tories”, Feb 8) accurately summarises the strategy of Kemi Badenoch as “it takes time to fix the machine . . . no party booted from government is forgiven after a few months”. This strategy bears an uncanny resemblance to the line taken by Edward Heath when, after “13 wasted years” and a narrow majority in October 1964, Harold Wilson secured a landslide of 96 in March 1966. In October that year I attended a party meeting in Exeter when Heath, elected as leader the year before, was criticised for exactly what is being levelled at Badenoch. Four years later, against opinion poll predictions, he was prime minister with a comfortable majority. The bubble of Reform will

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