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There is something narrow-minded about criticising a British politician for being ‘America-brained’.
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Britain's main opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during a Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons.
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Stephen Bush
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Although her tenure is barely more than a month old, I can already tell what is going to annoy me most about Ms Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative Party. It is the dismissal of her political interventions with the phrase “America-brained”.
A speech that she made last week (in Washington, naturally) was widely criticised for its focus on American topics, for its American audience, its use of American English and its supposed disconnection from the concerns of the British voting public.
