Published by The i Paper (10th August, 2026) The Kemi Badenoch bandwagon crashed into political reality last week. For several months, Conservative cheerleaders have pushed a narrative that their heroine is a strategic genius who will salvage their party after its near-death experience at the last general election. Buoyed by a bump in her personal ratings, they brushed aside a string of awful election results, culminating in fifth place in the…