Photo by Edward Massey / CCHQ “Could this,” asked the Telegraph on 19 June, “be the start of a Tory Kemi-naissance?” Camilla Tominey’s column is a little more nuanced than its headline suggests; she has the grace to acknowledge that a similar column about Rishi Sunak, written in May 2024, “aged spectacularly badly”; and if we start mocking columnists just for being publicly and catastrophically wrong, then where will I be? Nonetheless, since variants of this sentiment are often heard in certain circles at present, and since this one, too, might age spectacularly badly, it seems worth kicking its tyres...