US midterm: Badenoch mocks Trump over party’s loss

British Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch has said United States President Donald Trump deserved his party’s heavy defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Badenoch made the remark in an interview with The Independent Editor-in-Chief, Geordie Greig, where she criticised Trump’s handling of the Iran war, his tariff policies and his treatment of allies.
She described the Republican Party’s loss as “entirely self-inflicted”.
The Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the midterms, flipping at least seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts in a major setback for Trump’s Republican Party.
Asked whether Trump deserved the defeat, Badenoch replied,...