‘She’s a star’: Henley-on-Thames gives warm welcome (mostly) to Kemi Badenoch
The true-blue constituency with a Lib Dem MP is split on whether the Tories’ new leader should take the party further to the right.
On a dreary Saturday in the pristine Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames, nearly 40 miles away from the standing ovations and gleeful commiserations of Kemi Badenoch’s leadership victory, news was beginning to trickle through of the new shape of the Conservative party. Just three months ago, the Tories were defeated here by the Liberal Democrats – until then, Henley had voted Conservative in every election since 1906.
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