Few could have expected that a controversial election poster more than 40 years ago would so accurately reflect today’s debate about race in politics.Labour were outraged when, during the 1983 general election,

Hamish Badenoch met Kemi when he was a Conservative activist in the Dulwich and West Norwood Tory association, which led to their friendship and his becoming her campaign manager. Hamish has been likened to Margaret Thatcher’s husband Denis who offered to give lifts to young Thatcher during her campaigns in the early 1950s.

If the newly elected Conservative Party leader can grab the key issues she can “move the needle” and fix the party’s “brand crisis”, says Sky News contributor Kosha Gada.