Kemi Badenoch Can Announce All The Tax Cuts She Wants. No One Truly Believes She'll Ever Be Prime Minister

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e64632180000505b5d18d3.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Kemi Badenoch at the Tory conference in Manchester." data-caption="Kemi Badenoch at the Tory conference in Manchester." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Nicola Tree via Getty Images" />Kemi Badenoch at the Tory conference in Manchester.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/kemi-badenoch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kemi Badenoch</a> has just announced that a <a href="news/conservative-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tory</a> government led by her<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-badenoch-unveils-tory-plans-to-abolish-stamp-duty_uk_68e63c9de4b07aeeb19530b1"> would abolish stamp duty.</a></p><p>The Tory leader also pledged to overturn Labour’s decision to add VAT to private school fees and scrap the changes to inheritance tax which have angered farmers.</p><p>She unveiled the eye-catching policies in a better-than-expected speech closing the Conservative conference which should be enough to see off any imminent threats to her leadership.</p><p>But the main problem for the party’s leader is that no one truly believes that she will ever be in a position to deliver any of those policies.</p><p><a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/only-one-five-think-badenoch-will-become-prime-minister-majority-still-predict-conservatives-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New polling from Ipsos shows that barely one in five voters (22%) </a>expect her to ever become prime minister.</p><p>Unfortunately for Badenoch, that is not a rogue poll. According to <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/