Among the identikit CVs of MPs, Kemi Badenoch’s stands out. She grew up under military rule in Nigeria, and at 16 left alone for England. Such a childhood left her with unusually interesting insights. Some are profound. Liberal societies are fragile, she says; you too would hate social-media pile-ons if you’d seen a mob lynch a person in the street. In London the doctor’s daughter took a job at McDonald’s; every migrant knows, she says, that social mobility goes down as well as up. And some of her observations, to British ears, are just odd: she has “nothing in common” with northern Nigerians, who “were our ethnic enemies”. Bracingly right-wing and rarely dull, Ms Badenoch captivated the Conservative membership, who elected her their leader last November.