The difference between Starmer and Badenoch that really matters? Their approach to Trump | Tom Baldwin

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of using her gender and ethnicity to invalidate other opinions in a fashion more often associated with the woke’ identity politics she usually professes to despise.

Her arrival as leader of the opposition has coincided with a couple of fresh allegations about Keir Starmer .

The most obvious problem with this is that no such US trade deal has ever existed.

One of the reasons it was resisted before, including by Michael Gove when he was environment secretary, is that imports of the US ’s chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef would wreck Britain 's livestock industry.

Starmer, through experience and temperament, is not so reckless.