It’s not yet clear what the Tory leader is selling – and with Nigel Farage rising in the polls, the clock is ticking

Kemi Badenoch would like you to know that everything is going very well and that she has plenty of time. That, in its most digested form, was the message from her marathon Today programme interview. Will her MPs be reassured? It may be a little more complicated.

In fairness to the Conservative leader, as she said several times, she has been in the job for little more than seven weeks, and turning around a party that has just slumped from 344 MPs to a mere 121 is not a simple task.