UK Conservative Party Faces Existential Crisis Under Kemi Badenoch's Leadership

Oct 06, 2025 03:53 pm CST

The UK Conservative Party faces an unprecedented crisis as new leader Kemi Badenoch struggles to reverse plummeting poll ratings that place them fourth behind Labour, Liberal Democrats, and Reform UK. Following their devastating electoral defeat and loss of two-thirds of parliamentary seats, the once-dominant party confronts potential irrelevance, factional infighting, and defections to Nigel Farage's Reform UK as they attempt to rebuild before the 2029 general election.