Kemi Badenoch’s Special Relationship

The new leader of Britain’s Conservatives sets out to foster a partnership between President-elect Trump’s Make America Great Again movement and Britain’s Brexit.

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Prime Minister Starmer, left, and the new Tory Party chief, Kemi Badenoch, right. Christopher Furlong, left, Leon Neal, right/Getty Images

Call it the “Special Relationship, Brexit-MAGA edition.” What else to make of the new Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, out of the gate in the Commons with a spirited defense of President Trump? “Punchy and confident” is how the BBC described Mrs. Badenoch’s sparring with Sir Keir Starmer over whether the leftist premier and his coterie are up to the task, in Trump’s next term, of “building on” the traditionally close transatlantic ties.  

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