Badenoch campaign team member used offensive names about a councillor

Insulting language in private message sent by Oliver Cooper to an activist colleague in 2017 emerged in a high court case

Kemi Badenoch has brought in a Conservative councillor to help on her leadership bid who referred to a female politician in a vulgar manner in a message to another colleague.

Badenoch has Tory councillor Oliver Cooper on her team despite it having emerged in legal action that he had sent messages in 2017 about a female councillor to another activist calling her offensive names.