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Badenoch appeals to Tories' ‘worst instincts,’ Scottish Greens say
DIVISIVE: New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch

NEW Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was elected “appealing to the worst instincts of the Conservative Party,” the Scottish Greens said today.

Co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Tories were “determined to emulate the gutter politics of Farage’s far–right Reform.”

He said: “It is truly depressing to see the Tory Party now led by someone as unashamedly divisive as Kemi Badenoch.

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