«Here I am with you, Kemi from Nigeria…». When he said these words Kemi Badenoch was in her debut speech in front of the Conservative audience in 2017. Seven years later that audience took it all in, becoming the new Conservative leader of the United Kingdom (she won with 57% of the votes), already a former Minister of Economic affairs of Rishi Sunak’s government. Nigerian, born in London at a time when her mother was in the UK for treatment, 44 years old, given name Olukemi Olufunto Adegokewho grew up in Nigeria and returned to the UK as a teenager, the new leader of the British Conservative Party is also the first black woman to hold the role. Fourth woman to achieve this, after Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch has very clear ideas and is known for her decidedly combative attitude. This is also why some are already seeing it as the new Thatcher. «The time has come to tell the truth, to defend our principles, to plan our future, to rethink our politics and our thinking and to give our party and our country the new start they deserve,” he said immediately after his victory was announced.
The principles you are referring to are those that want increasingly rigid measures against immigration, Badenoch in fact approved the discussed (and never initiated for legal appeals) plan for the transfer of migrant people to Rwanda, he had voted in 2016 to leave from the European Union and today, even if he continues to be pro Brexit, he has recognized some limits of that choice. It defines itself «gender critical feminist» e anti-woke in 2019 she abstained from the vote to extend same-sex marriage rights in Northern Ireland, she opposed gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings, according to Vice News, in some audio recordings, she reportedly referred to transgender women as “men” and mocked gay marriage.
Mother of three children born from her marriage to banker Hamish Badenoch, the new Tory leader graduated in computer science from the University of Sussex. She herself said she had hacked the website of Harriet Harman, former leader of the Labor Party to make her say publicly good things about the Conservatives. She later apologized and her apology was accepted. As for her path into politics and becoming ever closer to the conservatives, Kemi Badenoch said she took this path after «having met the stupid white kids on the left» at university and said of herself that although she was born into a middle-class family, working at McDonald’s to pay for college allowed her to become part of the “working class” and learn about the difficulties of single mothers who struggle to make ends meet. end of the month.
Congratulating you on your election, on X the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani she wrote very questionable words both in terms of form and content (given that Badenoch arrived in London, where she was born, at 16 years old after having grown up for the first part of her life in Nigeria where she went to school): « Congratulations to Kemi Badenoch, elected as the new leader of the Conservatives. A black woman candidate to lead the United Kingdom. Nice example of integration. As proposed by Ius Italiae. Which is not a left-wing proposal.”
