World · The New York Times · Oct 7, 2026, 10:21 AM ET

Kemi Badenoch’s Surge: Can She Revive Britain’s Tories?

Original headline: The Fight for Britain’s Right: Can Kemi Badenoch Reboot the Conservatives? · By Stephen Castle

Attendees at the party’s annual conference have been buoyed: both by leader Kemi Badenoch’s rising poll ratings and by a mock Bayeux Tapestry. But the challenge from Reform U.K. remains.