The Badenoch vs Braverman ‘spat escalates’ | Isabel Hardman

“She often has these incredible spats. She likes a fight. I'm not sure she thinks about what is going to happen in two weeks time.”
Kemi Badenoch shows she can be quite “scrappy” as the “spat” between herself and Suella Braverman for the Conservative leadership “escalates”, says assistant editor at the Spectator Isabel Hardman.
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[@poppad4kka]

Suella is the type of person that would deport her own reflection

[@annlewis7685]

So funny..lol

[@jermaine2021]

Cold 😂

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

Fact

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

She is just a truly horrible person. Karma Ms Braverman.

[@user-oy3fl5jr7q]

its not suprising considering jer face is used to scare children!

[@mrd64]

Still fighting to be bottom of the pile.

[@ISuperTed]

And they still wonder why they lost by so much 😂

[@Tom_murray89]

The tories will be out of power with either of them as leader of the opposition

[@moirahaarhoff5286]

Neither woman deserves promotion, ever!

[@gerardmackay8909]

As someone else said ‘Two harpies fighting over a meatless corpse’

[@louisebrown4622]

Quite a good description

[@tommymorrison6478]

A Tory cat fight. Gorgeous. Let's hope it continues and that Badenoch wins. This will ensure the demise of the Tory party for a decade at least and possibly forever.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

These two women deserve each other. As for which should be leader, I'm sure Badenoch will edge it and then get into a series of frantic rows with her colleagues, blaming everyone but herself for the mess. She will then be challenged inside a year. Braverman will defect to the Reform rabble, and get into rows with Farage and Tice.

[@grahamtrave1709]

Both Badenoch and Braverman display behaviours symptomatic of unresolved childhood trauma. They are highly reactive and incapable of weighing up what the furtre outcomes could be of their actions made today, they are simply not programmed like that. Its crazy that either of them could consider that they have the experience or necessary tools to lead the Tories, but then again perhaps they will succeed and this will result in the further demise of the now decimated and irrelevant Conservative party.

[@georgesdelatour]

Have you heard of the Goldwater Rule?

[@grahamf695]

Interesting observation.

[@QYXP]

​@@georgesdelatour op didn't claim to be a psychiatrist or gave any official diagnosis. Is a lay person offering an opinion on behaviours. Goldwater rule doesn't apply.

[@georgesdelatour]

@@QYXP You're right. The poster is even less qualified to offer such an opinion than the Democrat-supporting psychiatrists who libelled Goldwater.

[@specialized500]

@@georgesdelatournever heard of it and I am very well informed and quite clever

[@russellnewton6660]

The Conservative Party is where it is because of people like these two.

[@Ninjjadog]

It needed to, it's a total mess

[@nowgrownup]

Wait 6 month after labour have been power see if you feel the same then you will see what clowns you have voted in 😂😂😂😂

[@chrisnieto5547]

No , it’s because most Tories became liberals and not Tories

[@russellnewton6660]

@@chrisnieto5547 glad you’re thinking that way 👍

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@nowgrownup They've already done more in a week than the tories did in 14 years and I'm not a Labour voter.

[@TheMarlinspike]

Kemi Badenoch is simply the most ludicrous choice of leader of the Tories you can imagine. Cruella is just nasty.

[@arnoldsaunders6073]

I hope Suella does not become leader of the left wing Conservative Party. Then I hope she will join us in Reform and bring a lot of members with her.

[@elih9700]

she's the best chance the tories have, you as a Labour voter will never understand this.

[@Unclemart99]

She is the choice because she is traditional conservative I am guessing you have other reasons to not like her.

[@judyparsons1333]

They need someone nasty

[@cedcol356]

they're both racists

[@mogbrown8409]

Badenoch has always had her eye on the main chance. She desperately wants to be Prime Minister. That is her goal and uses her race, hence the braids, to grab any opportunity that advances that. She is not in it to achieve the best for the U.K. nor its people.

[@GodIsLove1015]

Badenoch will be a Traitor like Sunak.

[@Nanack]

Really? She’s using her race because of her braids? Her constituents see her as a very CAPABLE person. Please stop playing the race card. If you have the appetite for it, perhaps you should consider running for office and see how many votes you’ll get.

[@Tom_murray89]

If Badenoch or braverman do win the tories are finished

[@dilekavan5796]

I would like it very much then

[@nowgrownup]

Don't talk ridiculous 😂

[@WhizzRichardThompson]

​@@nowgrownupYou start Ivan

[@kennethhodges3187]

God help is from both of these people! The only salvation is that they are both out of government and can and only harp from the sidelines!

[@nowgrownup]

You won't be saying that in 12 month that is guaranteed if you live UK 😂😂😂😂

[@user-tn1hv7lt8f]

Maybe they'll cancel each other out like a couple of fractions.

[@DrMattiLabbratt]

Nice! 👌

[@HOLLYHOCKFLOWERS]

😅😅😅😅

[@thefilmandmusic]

What a hideous pair ..They sr]till don’t get it , why they lost ‘criminality’

[@lokischildren8714]

Both are horrible women

[@nowgrownup]

So are Rayner and Abbott and Reeves and Phillips so 4 to labour party 2 to Conservative so labour wins the party with most horrible women 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@WhizzRichardThompson]

​@@nowgrownupYeah whatever troll.

[@philipriley2253]

What Baffles me is the electorate in both North West Essex & Fareham who actually votes for them. What a stain these two individuals are not only on the tory party, but the constituencies they are supposed to represent. Imagine asking either for help as a constituent..

[@EuricoRoberto]

Both irrelevant people thank you for the free publicity.

[@nowgrownup]

Did you have to go to university to learn how to write such nonsense both are voted in MP and both possibly in line as head of the Conservative Party they have achieved more than you as you are a nobody and totally irrelevant 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ivanconnolly7332]

Two vile adversaries.

[@dilekavan5796]

Absolutely

[@Mystics-_-]

How are they vile? Just because they have a different view? Wouldn’t that also make you vile? Hypocrisy at its finest 😂

[@ivanconnolly7332]

@@Mystics-_- If you cant see their vileness you need help.

[@tapaarn5863]

If find it difficult to describe either of them as Politicians. They're like two middle ranking managers in retail, vying for the area managers job. But it's fun to watch them ripping at each other. And my guess is that Reform are going to become more significant in the next couple of years, than these two rather mediocre politicians. They'll likely end up joining Reform at some point: They could then consider renaming themselves, CONFORM!

[@paulc1553]

Battle of the viles.

[@vincentvangogh8092]

cant see traditional tories voting for these two

[@rwo5402]

are you tal;king about tory voters or tory members? If you are talking about members they will certainly with unerring precision pick the craziest and nasties one.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Tory members love Badenoch. Reform voters love Braverman.

[@kms6465]

Badenoch could start a fight in an empty house.

[@TrevorBarre]

The Tories were booted out because they were terrible, nothing do do with "luck", a notion that of course The Spectator would happily endorse.

[@smarcier2719]

Two types of nastiness floating in the same toilet bowl of the Tory party.

[@davidjames2083]

*Emily Thornberry is **_"in the right position"_** - in the back of the Transit van!* 👍😂🍺

[@DD-ro1zk]

Big gob really. Can't rein it in. Hence they lost massively

[@vincentvangogh8092]

too emotional

[@_Stroda]

Imagine being part of a duo that, somehow, makes Priti Patel seem like a better option.

[@stevecoppin6396]

what a pity the tories were never subject to such scrutiny in 14 years !

[@lazslostpierre9951]

An irresistible farce versus an immovable abject.

[@jonm7272]

Just trying to imagine what the home counties tory gammons are thinking about these two ethnic minority women fighting for control of their precious tory party. They must be hating this 😂

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

The never ending clown show. Starmer should give the Lib Dems some of his MPs so the Lib Dems can lead the house in asking questions instead of clowns.

[@bc5295]

Bit rich for Tories to watch the party they support make itself unelectable through corruption and incompetence and then whine that means Labour has been "lucky".

[@kevinwalton4538]

Badenough and “think” are not two words I’d ever link!

[@UdoBloss]

As someone has said, "Two Harpies picking over a meatless corpse"

[@arnoldsaunders6073]

Harpies? The Labour from bench looks as if it was recruited in the bar in the first star wars film.

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@arnoldsaunders6073 When you base your insults on peoples appearence you're not worth listening to.

[@arnoldsaunders6073]

@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 Well, we receive enough insults from the globalist cult members, so occasionally we also dish it out. The difference is, we can take it, because we are not snowflakes.

[@luganoaman]

Braverman talks a lot but did absolutely nothing when she was in charge. Badeoch talks a good game but what will she do when in charge???

[@markrhoden68]

"The eye, the eye, give me the eye"

[@carlmichael5592]

It's very easy to appear competent when your are being compared to Johnson, Truss & Sunak. The fact that Keir Starmer has intelligence and integrity just widens the gulf.

[@finlybenyunes8385]

YOU'RE

[@LuzDoSol-yr5bv]

It's hard to pick. " Team Bravaman " or " Team Bendonoch" if you have to choose one, fears competition.😂😂

[@annlewis7685]

No need to pick. They are both 'two face' of the same coin.

[@LuzDoSol-yr5bv]

@annlewis7685 Thanks, Ann, save me from that job. 🤣🤣

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

T he Tories were so inept, I’m not a Starmer fan, but he appears proficient, and his Cabinet compared to the absolute ineptitude of recent Tory Cabinets, poles apart. I’m pretty sure they can only improve on the last 14 years.

[@geoffauldfield4664]

This is planned. She knows the person who shouts loudest gets most attention. Badenoch was virtually unknown and is now top news. Farage, Johnson and Truss also used this trick.

[@TooDarnSoulful]

I love it opens his popcorn -party has been split beyond repair since Brexit - no way can they have unity - ever !

[@pholdway5801]

They are not in power now . And are not spending wastefully as LIE BORE are doing WE ARE BILLIONS IN DEBT AND LIEBORE are WASTING even more

[@jokos1384]

GOT MY POPCORN, ENJOYING CAT FIGHT BEFORE GRAND FINALE DOG FIGHT THIS SUNDAY BETWEEN ENGLAND & SPAIN

[@PassiveAgressive319]

If Sunak had gone for Autumn, the election result would be the same.

[@pauldockree9915]

Actually😅😅😅 I found I did not care for my own country of birth. How liberating that is. 20 years😢😮😊

[@noneyourbiz]

"She often has these incredible spats"😂. If only she had tried to read CRT, she would understand these EMERGING RHETORICS decisively constructing A PECULIAR LABEL of ANGER ISSUES😂. Well😂

[@SlowhandGreg]

The City like everyone else was sick of 8 years of Tory chaos. Sunak can't turn round a squabbling pack of rats which is what the tories have descended into

[@quicksesh]

choosing between those two is like choosing between contracting Gonorrhea or Syphilis - you actually want neither.

[@artel6225]

All that is hideously wrong & banal within the Conservative Party.

[@user-sq7nk9us6f]

Suella and Badenoch deserve each other. The country deserves far better. We need a competent opposition not repugnant ego driven dramas.

[@shermoore1693]

Tory's LACK of luck??? They're lucky they managed to stay in Downing Street for so long.

[@michaelahern6821]

They're lucky they're not in prison the whole lit of em..

[@michaelahern6821]

They're lucky they're not in prison...

[@stoyanfurdzhev]

They have to form a new party called Britain today, with Nigel Farage as honorary chairman.

[@Oluinneachain]

She will lead them into the political wilderness 😂

[@fiachramaccana280]

a cobra vs a pit viper

[@nowgrownup]

Your not british or live UK your views are irrelevant 😂😂😂

[@fiachramaccana280]

@@nowgrownup internet is global and nobody gets to shut anybody down. You lost the election and that is very releevant....

[@schofield4836]

Not doing themselves any favours

[@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

Get in! Go on girl - you tell 'er. FIGHT!

[@Gruffydom]

Cruella vs Bad Enough

[@UseDgh]

I can't get past seeing Badenoch as a contestant on the Apprentice.

[@pip1723]

Tories lost they are out thankfully couldn't care less about their leadership pantomime .

[@vincentvangogh8092]

if we want to sort out divisions in society its better to have a more decent tory party wishful thinking by me for sure

[@sylviawillmot4365]

Why do these people not recognise that people are sick and tired of the Tories destroying everything. Thank goodness the adults are back in the room.

[@theshadowdirector]

Sure, I'll trust insider knowledge about Labour from an editor of the Spectator.

[@carlgreene538]

It's not a fight it's an argument.

[@patrikfloding7985]

Love it!

[@anthonyso1556]

Is there any other option.? If there are only these two options, I prefer Braverman, at least she could point out Rishi's terrible policies. Badenoch stayed on Rishi cabinet. Braverman dares to say no.

[@stevejohnstone1702]

if they choose Badenoch or Braverman for leader they will be out for 10yrs min. We can only hope.

[@samuelhowell7364]

clash of the titans

[@DrMattiLabbratt]

Godzilla vs Rodan 😂

[@WaineBGallagher]

Not luck to take advantage of other's missteps. It's good judgement. Tories can't believe anyone other then them has good judgement, and can't see that the outgoing government had absoluetly no competence at all. Desperately trying to big themselves up by doing the usual, tearing others down. Despicable party.

[@shanghaichica]

Kemi sounds like she is unwell. Who starts arguments without thinking about the consequences. She doesn’t sound fit to be an MP let alone leader of the conservatives.

[@ute0761]

Please spare us both!!!

[@ScruffyTubbles]

I think that Isobel Hardman has a First Class Degree in Literature from The University of Exeter. Kemi Badenoch has lots of bolt on degrees from other places but in reality doesn't have the same gravitas at all. A brawler yes. Product of sharp elbowed parents yes.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

She has no decorum whatsoever. She embarrassing

[@danielo1312]

Oh no! She has got this far by standing up for herself. She is used to no one defending her. This slur is just bad. Be fair and kinder please.

[@user-hh8hv6on1o]

All the while sewagella and bladderwrack fight it out they aren't doing anyone else damage. Long may it carry on.

[@robertstraw9881]

Kemi Badenoch 😆 go ahead guys, give her the job.

[@sovereignjoe5730]

You're turning out to be a bit of a let down Kemi, looks like you're selling out & becoming just another Tory.

[@robinmcara793]

Stop giving these ppl airtime jeez 😂😂😂😂

[@pauldockree9915]

Oh. Watch this? Terms of endearment. Quote. Yup. That one Aurora Greenway : Would you like to come in? Garrett Breedlove : I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

[@lauralee9482]

The Tories are still blaming everyone, including themselves. When will they realise that is a part of why they failed.

[@pauldockree9915]

Bad Enoch? Sorry Kemi. Badenoch. Bye bye Sue Ellen Braverman? I plan to support Spain in the final.

[@fabienmerteuil6226]

He went early because he couldn’t get Rwanda off the ground. It was blowing up in his face

[@encoreunefois1X]

I't's so disheartening, this undertone of Tory entitlement, of the Tories being the natural party of government. I could barely be more miserable under a 1970s Warsaw Pact Communist regime than I have been under the seemingly eternally ruling Tories. I'd love Braverman to lead them but Badenoch would do just fine. Dreadful, the lot of them!

[@russellmarriott9396]

They’re both irrelevant.

[@trevellyanblack4101]

Kemi Badenoch has a notoriously short fuse, infamous for storming out of a Canada trade deal over British car exports. Do the Tories want someone like that as their new leader? Unfortunately on previous form the answer is probably yes.

[@iankuah8606]

The man who threw stuff over Starmer is lucky. Remember what happened to the idiot who tried to asault 'Two Jags' Prescott who was a boxer in his youth?

[@mandymann]

Your Starmer coverage is so biased. He should be credited for seeming competent and prepared yet you seem to focus on these positives and downplay them.

[@stephenjackson1828]

Whiff of luck? The times really are clutching at straws!

[@japfourme381]

Badenoch let us all down on Brexit, EU deregulation!!

[@ianworley8169]

Just the Leader the Tories need to unify the Party. 😂😂😂

[@ianmac51]

Luck is driven, not given.

[@neilmorris6046]

Reform

[@riffraff9506]

What do they know?

[@encoreunefois1X]

What's the emoji for intellectual decrepitude?

[@AndymacUK]

Badenoch will be the greatest leader of the Tory Party ever! She will outshine even Churchill! Her natural charisma and vibrant personality appeals to all!"

[@timbrown4576]

Hey Tory party, you're just not learning are you.

[@ilikethiskindatube]

Kayfabe. Kayfabe. Kayfabe. Kayfabe. Kayfabe. Kayfabe.

[@jokos1384]

JEREMY HUNT MUST STEP UP

[@edwardmiller3859]

Can you Imagine a white male arguing with either of them

[@samanthaostrowski6755]

Suella for Reform UK.

[@anindyamajumdar4088]

Kami Badenoch is NOT Parliamentary Party leadership material, let alone Prime Ministerial material. She is arrogantly bad mannered and lacks the etiquette to be a Prime Minister. Annoying the speaker enough to rebuke her arrogance does not suggest that she has the quality to hold a Front bench post .

[@kevonslims7269]

Ben Wallace if he stated in government would be leading this contest if he ran.

[@danielmcleanfisher]

Rishi went early to get a March on reform

[@user-ln3lh2pz8h]

They have a future in pantomime as the wicked sisters in Cinderella., There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover.. I'll leave to finish the verse. Priti can do the vocals.

[@RopekingRopethemall]

REFORM