"Badenoch said she inherited a party facing internal problems, with donors considering pulling funding after the loss of 250 seats in last year's general election - the worst result in Conservative history. Speaking to the BBC's Newscast to mark her first year as Conservative Party leader, Badenoch said she spent her first months "working furiously behind the scenes", leading to some thinking her team "were not doing anything"."
"The Conservative leader admitted she initially spent a day preparing lines and data, only to find that people were not following what she was saying. "It is more theatre than it is a prosecution or interrogation," she said. "It is the nature of British politics that we will have a panto" while political debate in other countries will have other "culturally appropriate analogies", she argued."
Kemi Badenoch took leadership after the Conservative Party suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat, losing 250 seats and facing donor withdrawal. The party nearly ran out of money and donors considered pulling funding, creating a financial crisis risk. Early months were spent working behind the scenes to keep donors on board, a task that consumed significant time that might otherwise have been spent campaigning. Donor retention and initial groundwork aimed to restore stability. The party now claims a firmer footing and has begun setting out a new policy agenda. Prime Minister's Questions were reframed as theatre rather than strict interrogation.
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