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Wales? Scotland? It’s all the same to Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative leader appeared to forget where she was when she boasted of meeting so many MSPs in Wales

Rats in a Sack

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. Photo: Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Another day, another triumph for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who today was in Llangollen for the Welsh Conservative Conference.

Addressing her troops – currently ripping themselves to shreds over the hapless Darren Millar’s leadership, whether to work with Reform following next year’s election and if they support devolution at all – Badenoch cheered it was “wonderful to meet so many MSPs”.

Which it may well have been – but that was unlikely in Llangollen. Members of the Senedd are called MSs, a title which changed from AM (Assembly Member) in 2020 when Wales’s national legislature was rebranded. MSPs, as the acronym suggests, are Members of the Scottish Parliament. Whoops!

(How long Badenoch will be able to meet “so many” MSs is up for debate too. While the Senedd expands from 60 to 90 members next year, a recent poll suggested the number of Tories could actually drop from 15 to as few as nine).

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