Good news for Kemi Badenoch (pictured) has been thin on the ground. But she can draw some real comfort this weekend from a survey conducted by my grassroots organisation.
The Tories are languishing in the polls behind Labour and Reform. No wonder some have read it the last rites. And yet, under Kemi Badenoch there are signs the party is flickering back to life.
They were the words that destroyed John Major's premiership and government, consigned the Tory Party to decades in the political wilderness and changed the course of British history.
Kemi Badenoch arguably has the worst job in politics. Inheriting a battered, bruised and virtually broke Tory Party in an atmosphere of rampant populism.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I can disclose that Lady Magan, 77, is in the throes of a protracted, painful divorce and is trying to come to terms with the fact that she could lose her home.