Is a Badenoch bounce real, or has the right wing media made it all up?

I think one of her problems is that the Conservative Party, and she in particular, is being allowed to live completely trouble-free in its comfort zone. By that I mean that Cammy Badenock, who, and there are things I sort of quite admire about her and I like the fact that she engages conceptually with politics and philosophically with politics and she's a good speaker, but I tell you what, I think there is no political figure in Britain that gets a better press than her right now. The Tory press, you talk about manifesting, Emily, the Tory press are manifesting a Tory Republic. They're desperate for it to happen. And in so doing, what it means is, is that the easy ride she gets, the relative lack of scrutiny that she gets, because she basically tells them everything that they want to hear at all times, because they're so desperate for a kind of Neo Thatcher kind of figure, it means that, frankly, she doesn't get some of the political heat that she probably ought to get for how lamentably bad the Conservatives' political position is. I mean, looking at some of the coverage from Birmingham this week, you'd think that they were one year away from an election, 20 points in the polls, the level of triumphalism that there's been is extraordinary for a party which is not just doing as badly as it was in terms of the polls in the 2024 election, which was six to seven points less good than their worst general election performance in two centuries before that in the entire history of the Conservative Party. They're actually doing substantially worse at a time when the Labour Party is recovering in the polls. So people say, well, she's popular. She's not that popular. She's still in negative territory. She's still in minus 15 or so. And look, being leader of the opposition is really, really tough. It's especially tough after your party has just been ejected from office, a government in which she herself served. So you could sort of say, well, would anybody be doing better? And so small are they ranked in Parliament now. They only have 120 MPs. The talent pool is extremely low. But I think that in a way, if this were a Labour Party leader in opposition, oh, my God, just think of the daily opprobrium and hell that they would be getting from the Labour Party because the coverage would be so bad on them for not doing better. And I think actually she's slightly suffering from the lack of heat that perhaps she ought to be feeling.