My Left-leaning, champagne-socialist friends were so excited at the prospect of a Labour government last year. 'Of course we want you to win Kemi,' they told me, 'but it's time for change'.
You've probably never heard of the so-called 'socio-economic duty', and nor should you have. It's a left-over clause from the Equality Act passed by Labour in 2010.
Britain today seems to work more favourably for those who jump the queue, who break the rules, who get into our country illegally but then denigrate our customs and our culture.
KEMI BADENOCH: In their first ten months, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have hiked taxes on jobs, farms and family businesses, and snatched winter fuel support from vulnerable pensioners.
We know that the West has given the world amazing ideas and values, from democracy and free markets to our banking systems. Yet around us we see so much decline that we doubt ourselves.