Tough-talking Business Secretary can give a striking reboot to the Conservative Party if it is defeated at the next election
The word that comes up most often when people discuss this year’s Conservative Party conference is “flat”.
But among the policy-light speeches to half-empty rooms, there has been the odd flash of electricity.
Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman have received the sort of rock star welcome not seen since Boris Johnson was in his pomp.
Frank Luntz, the American pollster who predicted Liz Truss would be Boris Johnson’s successor two years before it happened, has now predicted that Mrs Badenoch will be the next Tory leader.