It is hard to overstate the challenges Rishi Sunak's successor faces, even setting aside the muchcited fact that the last new UK leader to take a party directly from an election defeat to government was Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
To begin with, as Badenoch acknowledged in her victory speech, which came with a warning that Tories must "tell the truth" to win back the trust of the voting public, opposition is just as difficult, especially after so long in government.
There is a sense that quite a number of the 121 remaining Conservative MPs are still only just getting used to the sparse opposition benches and limited number of select committee places.
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