If Kemi Badenoch’s Commons performances have improved recently from abysmal to merely ropey, that’s because she’s been practising by debating with AI Labour ministers.
It has emerged that Badenoch and her shadow ministers have been testing their attack lines on “digital twins” of their opposite numbers created for them by Nostrada AI, a firm founded by former Tory staffer Leon Emirali.
The clones apparently give responses to questions put to them through a chatbot, having been trained to respond with the same tone and views of the minister based on thousands of political speeches and records from the Commons chamber. “Labour ministers are so predictably wooden and stuck in their failing ways that even AI can predict what they will say. The sad story of Starmer’s failing government is an obvious and repeating pattern,” a “party source” tells the Times today, in comments which ironically could have been written by AI.
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If AI gets any better, perhaps it could replace Badenoch’s advisers entirely. That seems to be on the cards judging by her reaction yesterday to Labour’s festive u-turn on inheritance tax on farms.
“Earlier this year, I was told to drop our campaign, that there weren’t many votes in it, there weren’t many farmers, and people assumed they were wealthy enough to cope anyway. I ignored the advice and kept campaigning,” she wrote on X.
In other words: my advisers were stupid and wrong, and I was right not to listen to them. What a message to her staff at Yuletide from clever Kemi!
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