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.