Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch has launched her Tory leadership campaign on Tuesday claiming to be the “fresh face” the Conservative party needs.

She went on to retain it at the 2016 London Assembly elections. She had guessed the Labour MP’s password and then posted a hoax blogpost claiming that the then minister for women and equality was supporting Boris Johnson in the London elections. In a rousing maiden speech in Parliament she described the referendum as “the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom.” She resigned her a roles as equalities minister and minister in the Department for Levelling Up on July 6, saying she had lost faith in Boris Johnson as prime minister. She has described herself as an example of the “British dream”, an “immigrant who came to the UK aged 16 and who became a parliamentarian” in one generation. In the 2017 election she stood in the safe Conservative seat of Saffron Walden in Essex and was elected to Parliament.

The former equalities minister launched her bid to become the next Tory leader at an office venue in Westminster, central London, on Tuesday.

She said her Government would be guided by the “Conservative principles” of a “limited government doing less but better” and a “strong nation state”. She is competing with prominent Cabinet faces including Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, but said her lack of experience is a “huge advantage” because she does not come with “the baggage of so many of the decisions that have been made” in recent years. Standing in front of a union flag-patterned backdrop bearing the slogan “Kemi for Prime Minister”, she said: “In the debate we’ve been having about the future of our party and our country, there have been lots of promises to cut taxes.

THE former equalities minister running for Tory leader on an "anti-woke" platform has emerged as one of the one of the favourites among…

The actions by the then minister led to an alert about the risk to media freedom being registered with the Council of Europe, with the NUJ calling her response “frankly weird, completely out of order and an abuse of her privilege”. She replied: "About 10 years ago I hacked into a Labour MP's website and I changed all the stuff in there to say nice things about Tories. However in 2018, she apologised after admitting she had hacked a Labour MP’s website to “say nice things about the Tories”.

The MP for Saffron Walden is a strong contender in the Tory leadership contest, currently sitting in second position according to one poll.

Ms Badenoch has served as a Member of Parliament since 2017. “People are exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric. Prior to her election as a Member of Parliament, she was a member of the London Assembly, acting as the GLA Conservative’s spokesperson for the economy. But I'm here to tell you that's not the case. She is a former Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party and former member of the Justice Select Committee. Ms Badenoch has previously held roles as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education.

"I'm putting myself forward in this leadership election because I want to tell the truth. It's the truth that will set us free," her Op-Ed read.

In the first round of voting, candidates with less than 30 votes will be eliminated. The next Prime Minister needs integrity, experience, and a tax-cutting plan for economic growth.That’s why I’m standing.” he tweeted. Good journalism costs a lot of money. “Truss is popular among Conservative members, who would pick the eventual winner of a contest. He served as chancellor from 2019 to 2020. Ms Badenoch’s foray into politics happened in 2005 when she joined the Conservative Party at the age of 25. Mr Sunak insists on not cutting tax like his counterparts until the inflation is gripped. Voting will continue until only two candidates are left. Despite all these, he still tops the list of possible successors. “I have a plan to stir our economy through these headwinds. She is a former Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party and former member of the Justice Select Committee. Prior to her election as a Member of Parliament, she was a Conservative member of the London Assembly, acting as the GLA Conservative’s spokesperson for the economy. Ms Badenoch announced her intention to run in an Op-Ed published in the Times of London on Saturday, saying she would run on a “smart and nimble centre-right vision.”

Too good to be true? Old Queen Street, Westminster. “It's time to tell the truth”, said Kemi Badenoch, as she launched her leadership bid this morning. Can you ...

Whether it makes electoral sense to tell the truth to the British, who have a long history of picking cavalier charlatans over grim truth tellers as leaders, is not something Badenoch is likely to find out. But the assertiveness that has given her a formidable reputation in the Commons is missing. Watching them and Labour trying to get their heads around that will be a thing of glory. Badenoch’s pitch is not that distinct from the other candidates. She promises a “sophisticated” means test for pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, which makes the young Tories in the room nod and smile. As Badenoch speaks, Dominic Raab comes out for Sunak. He is the inevitability candidate. Anyway: Badenoch. She is inexperienced, the risk candidate. And a rumour: which candidates’ donors are flooding the betting market to make them look more popular than they actually are? She says the truth will set us free, rather than making us all scream, then apply for Australian visas. The truth hurts. Britain is as stagnant as it was in the Seventies. Productivity is a joke. Can you handle the truth though?

Kemi Badenoch MP has been one to watch for years. The 42-year-old member for Saffron Walden appears to have quickly become a favourite of Conservative ...

The real problem for Badenoch is the economy, stupid. It is hard to see what culture precisely the Tories even wish to conserve. The next Tory government ought to be concerned not with cutting costs, but with what Britain can build and make and do. An increase in material poverty in Britain is currently being met by intellectual poverty on the British right. How can we be more productive if the regions of the country with most of the decent jobs also suffer from a near-unimaginable housing crisis? She is a relative unknown with the public, has never held high ministerial office and was only elected to the Commons in 2017. The question of how to sustain a culturally coherent, liberal and multiethnic democracy in the coming decades is a real one. If Badenoch wants to be the person to promote a post-racial, moderate and inclusive society, then all power to her. Covid, the supply-chain crisis, the Ukraine war and now the economic tempest battering domestic budgets have all hammered home the need for an effective and protective state. The Telegraph reporter Camilla Turner noted on Twitter that the Badenoch campaign had stuck crude paper “men” and “ladies” signs on the doors of loos at the venue. The Mumsnet faction of British politically-aware society is aware of the heady possibilities of serious institutional changes, with the influence of groups like Stonewall visibly waning for the first time in a decade. The social and cultural Overton window of 2022 is open far, far wider than in 2010.

She also appeared to have gendered toilets, as reported by the Telegraph's Camilla Turner, causing MP Christian Wakeford to roll his eyes. After the loo ...

Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings. As for the loos at Badenoch's launch event, while lots of people mocked her as well, researcher Maya Forstater claims the signs were already there and had nothing to do with Badenoch. Former equalities minister Badenoch held a launch event for her leadership bid yesterday where she said she would cut taxes, preside over a "slimmer state" to pay for these cuts and defend the free market.

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"The entire Westminster system is broken beyond repair. "That is because Ms Badenoch knows full well that the blame for this nightmare lies squarely with the UK Government who have failed to lift a finger to support families facing the brunt of the crisis. It followed a lively exchange in the House of Commons in which the SNP MP for Aberdeen North asked the minister: "If the Conservative government is doing such wonderful things, how come my constituents can't afford to eat?"

Kemi Badenoch is a robust conviction conservative. The fact that her election would enrage the Left is a bonus.

As her hero, the economist Thomas Sowell put it, “many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions”. The Tories need a brave, innovative leader, ready to challenge the definition of what’s possible. Sadly, she’s a long shot to reach the final round now; MPs must realise that if she were in the mix, members would struggle to resist someone so sound and genuine. As a self-made 42-year-old, she would be well-placed to communicate conservative values to young people, and given her relatable background, they might even listen. Badenoch’s challenge in the coming days will be to avoid being dismissed as a “culture war” candidate, and emerge as credible on other issues. She immediately ruled out unfunded tax cuts, insisting that any reductions be accompanied by institutional reform and a permanent shrinking of the state. (If you want to see racism, look at the Left’s reaction to someone from an ethnic minority expressing conservative views.) In the Commons and on the campaign trail, her charisma and conviction would make Keir Starmer look even more of a wet lettuce.

Kemi Badenoch is in the running to be Prime Minister of the UK. Here are her controversial views on the environment, LGBTQ+ rights and racism.

And they’re terrified of it.” Hailing from Wimbledon, Badenoch grew up in the USA, Nigeria and the UK. After studying at the University of Sussex, she worked her way up through the Tory party and was elected to parliament in 2017. Now, she’s established herself as the ultimate “anti-woke” candidate in the Tory leadership contest. Here are just a few of her terrible takes on issues like LGBTQ+ rights, the environment and racial inequality. Kemi Badenoch defended a controversial report into race relations that argued there is no evidence of “institutional racism” in the UK. Kemi Badenoch is in the running to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the country.