I’m concerned, however, that if Farage’s Reform benefits from the impending Labour chaos, Africa’s relations with Britain could be heading for a very long winter.
Ms Badenoch blamed her predecessor, Rishi Sunak, for the party’s woes last week, after two members of parliament left the party.
Mrs Badenoch on Tuesday dismissed the defections as the Tories “shedding some baggage.”
“Some of the old gang around Boris Johnson are back texting and in talks to get him to return,” one senior Tory said.
The US president-elect will be sworn in to his second term in the White House on Monday, eight years after he first took the oath of office.
Ms Badench, who migrated from Nigeria to the UK, insisted that immigrants who do not want to integrate into British culture should not be in the UK.
