After all these months, we have finally discovered something that JD Vance is right about. He believes that Kemi Badenoch is not worth meeting. And in this – and only this – he is entirely correct.
It’s not a particularly courageous or unusual opinion. It is one which most of this country holds and which anyone would come to of their own accord once they learned the slightest thing about her. But Vance is so starved of sensible opinions that this one stands out.
The US Vice President has made time for the shadow Justice Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and Reform leader, Nigel Farage, but he is not meeting the Conservative leader. A Conservative spokesperson said that they “just couldn’t make it work with schedules”.
This is not a convincing argument. While Jenrick met Vance, Badenoch was serving ice cream in the Isle of Wight and formulating policy on the price of ferries.
It’s possible that she is just deeply concerned about the Isle of Wight’s economic position and prepared to turn down a meeting with the Vice President of the United States in order to give it the attention it deserves. Or, alternatively, she wasn’t invited. One of these explanations is more compelling than the other.
She has previously shown a keen interest in the US right. When Donald Trump returned to power, she radiated delight. In her very first PMQs question as Opposition Leader, she asked if Foreign Secretary David Lammy was going to “apologise for making derogatory and scatological references” about the US President. The following month she flew out to Washington to meet Republicans on Capitol Hill. We can safely conclude that Badenoch would have met Vance if there was the slightest opportunity to do so.
Perhaps she was appealing for an invitation when she spent the early part of this week demanding that Britain set up “camps” for asylum seekers. After all, that is the system which has been adopted by ICE in the US, in which people are accosted by anonymous plain-clothed thugs, bundled into an unmarked vehicle and then dropped into a vast, sprawling immigration detention estate, deprived of basic dignity.
Badenoch may have come up with the camp idea of her own accord, as a symptom of her personal moral disintegration. Or she may have done so as an appeal for attention from the US politician. Both options are as bad as each other, although the latter one is marginally more pitiful.
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Regardless, it did not work. Indeed, if Vance had any respect for Badenoch at all he would not have met Jenrick, a man whose leadership manoeuvers are so obvious they can be seen from space. But Vance, for perhaps the first time in his life, is right about something. He has understood two deep central truths about British politics in 2025. First, that Badenoch is useless. And second, that she won’t be around for much longer. Better, then, to meet Jenrick – the figure who is much more likely to lead the Conservatives into the next election.
The men are actually very similar. Both once exhibited a marginally better nature. Vance used to say that Trump was “reprehensible” and “an idiot” – both statements which are objectively correct and therefore had to be apologised for. Robert Generic, as he used to be known, started life as a beige flat-pack Tory politician in the David Cameron mould, but like Vance he saw where the energy lay on the right and radicalised at speed.
Perhaps both men underwent a true Damascene conversion, or perhaps they are simply willing to say or do anything in order to secure political power. It doesn’t matter. People’s actions define who they are and that is all that is required to condemn them.
Vance and Jenrick are also united by their dismal view of Britain. Last February, Vance said the “basic liberties of religious Britons” were under threat. Later that month he tried to accost Keir Starmer during a visit to the White House, criticising British speech regulations which “also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens”. Notice the way that he implicitly suggests the legislation of an elected British government should have no impact on American firms operating in the UK, as if they were our feudal lords.
Jenrick’s social media feed is a daily churn of angry content, casting Britain as a kind of failed state. “We are losing our country”, “lawless Britain”, on it goes, every day, a mutilated image of what the country is and a perpetual series of disparagements.
Presumably they got on terribly well. They are both cast in the same mould: bland old centre-right politicians who are now prepared to engage in the most vicious rhetoric imaginable if it gets them closer to power. Men whose ignorance is matched only by the confidence with which they express it. Heinous moral cowards whose elevated status is a signal of our societal decline.
Perhaps, as they raised a glass, they recognised that it is only at this time that figures with such little talent could get ahead in politics, and toasted their good fortune. Or perhaps they were only united by their one legitimate view: that talentless as they are, they’re still more talented than Kemi Badenoch.
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