{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6b2fc9ba-b9b7-4b7a-b980-e0024facd926/68810c0ff6d4262b07d9f111?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Kemi Badenoch isn't working | Cover Story with Tom McTague","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f75c1a8cbe0c083cee79/1753287220625-c0d1038e-35e2-437b-ab20-efe83224392e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>She was the Tory saviour. Now, by November, she could be gone.</p><p><br></p><p>Where did it all go wrong for Kemi Badenoch?</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>For this week's New Statesman magazine, Will Lloyd has written a powerful and revealing profile of the Nigerian immigrant who rose to lead the Conservative Party. </p><p><br></p><p>Will joins Tom McTague to discuss what he discovered in the course of his reporting, including why Conservative grandees first celebrated, then turned against, Kemi Badenoch. </p><p><br></p><p>They explore whether racism plays a role in the way Badenoch has been treated, and whether the woman who some cast as a new Thatcher was ever as able as the Conservatives wanted to believe.</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>Read Will Lloyd's profile of Kemi Badenoch in the New Statesman magazine, or online: <a href=\"https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/07/kemi-badenoch-isnt-working\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kemi Badenoch isn't working</a></p><p><br></p><p>Listen next: <a href=\"https://pod.fo/e/2fba0e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How to defeat reform - exclusive polling with analyst Steve Akehurst</a></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}