Kemi Badenoch is no philosopher-queen

Kemi Badenoch's victory has crystalised a divide on the contemporary right.

Between a younger, angrier, online vanguard who consider her inadequate to the country’s challenges, and a grandee class that think she is remarkable.

Niall Ferguson praised the new Tory leader for her intellectual energy’ and personal authenticity’ But for those of us who grew up with ready access to the internet were big fans of Sowell , Scruton and co. by the time we reached our late teens.

A generational divide has opened up within the Tory membership, with many young members feeling as if Badenoch has been forced onto them as the choice of the older and wealthier average.

Young Conservatives care less about culture war credentials than whether they can buy a house.

Young right will turn towards Reform or Dominic Cummings’s Start-Up-Party .