Kemi Badenoch Sparks Widespread Mockery After Claiming She 'Gets Better Every Week'

Kemi Badenoch claimed she was getting better every week at PMQsKemi Badenoch has been brutally mocked for claiming she is “getting better” at her job as Tory leader “every week”.During their weekly debate at prime minister’s questions, Keir Starmer reminded all the MPs in the Commons how Badenoch claimed she was improving in her role at the weekend.Her remark came after the back-handed compliment from her own shadow chancellor Mel Stride, who bizarrely promised his boss “would get better” at her own job last week.So Starmer put it to Badenoch today that “she could start for apologising for the Liz Truss budget, that would be better.”But Badenoch dodged that jibe – and instead seemed to invite even more criticism, saying: “Mr Speaker, I get better every week, he gets worse!”Her words sparked a wave of laughter from the Labour benches, so much so the House speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to cut in to reprimand them.He shouted: “If you think that is a good look, it is a very bad look – I’d think twice before you try to shout somebody down in that way.” "I get better every week, he gets worse," Kemi Badenoch tells the House, asking the PM "to admit" the winter fuel payment U-turn will be funded "by putting taxes up""We've put record investment into our public services," Keir Starmer says#PMQshttps://t.co/UbO1lFl7t1pic.twitter.com/COTxPPscD4— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 11, 2025Badenoch was elected as the leader of the Conservatives in November, but has been widely ridiculed for her performance in the role since.She was recently accused of failing to notice when Starmer U-turned on his deeply unpopular policy on winter fuel allowance in PMQs, and faced intense backlash earlier this year when she did not even notice how the prime minister agrees with her words on a legal ruling.But Badenoch suggested on Matt Forde’s The Political Party podcast on Monday that she has turned a corner.She claimed that initially went into PMQs with “all these facts and figures and stats”, but was criticised for being “terrible and so boring”.The Tory leader – who has been an MP since 2016 – said it changed when “I realised this is not a courtroom where I am prosecuting a witness, it’s panto.”But it seems most people on social media definitely did not agree..“Mr Speaker, I get better every week,” Kemi Badenoch says, to immediate and uproarious laughter from pretty much the whole house. (Except Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who was a bit po faced about it)— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) June 11, 2025Oh dear. Kemi Badenoch thinks she’s getting better🤦 #PMQs— Adam Fox (@AdamFoxUK) June 11, 2025Kemi Badenoch saying she’s better than Keir Starmer?#PoliticsLive#PMQspic.twitter.com/Wx9BEVwxpQ— Hasan Hussain (@HasanHussain777) June 11, 2025Kemi Badenoch, who has an absolutely terrible #PMQs week in, week out, claims that she gets better every weekThe Tory leader is arrogance personified #PoliticsLivepic.twitter.com/5K64SkIlHb— David (@Zero_4) June 11, 2025That moment when Kemi Badenoch claims that she gets "better every week" at Prime Minister's Question.Not exactly hard when her starting point was the debating skills of a labradoodle and the integrity of a chocolate teapot left out in the Sahara...#PMQs#PoliticsLivepic.twitter.com/RFmFXgQZhZ— Division Order (@divisionorderuk) June 11, 2025Kemi Badenoch gets better every week? If she does then it just shows how low her standards are….#PMQs#PoliticsLive— Hasan Hussain (@HasanHussain777) June 11, 2025Kemi Badenoch thinks she's 'getting better' at #PMQs? More like getting better at rehearsing her fake outrage Starmer's got her number: it's all just an act pic.twitter.com/bwGYA255nD— Candice Holmes (@hol40900) June 11, 2025Related...Kemi Badenoch Says Introducing Trump-Style Travel Ban Could Be 'Viable' For UKExcruciating Moment Kemi Badenoch Struggles To Answer BBC's Fundamental Liz Truss QuestionKemi Badenoch Claims Nigel Farage's Reform UK Is 'Another Left-Wing Party'

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