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Kemi Badenoch

All the latest news and updates on Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader and Tory MP for North West Essex. She was voted Rishi Sunak's replacement in November 2024, having previously served as business secretary, Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities.

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Naga Munchetty confronts Kemi Badenoch for not wanting to watch Adolescence

Channel: TV TV 5 days ago By Robert Oliver
A fire with smoke emerging during a far-right 'Enough is Enough' rally held in August 2024.

Lucy Connolly put my life in danger - keep her in prison

Channel: Politics Politics 7 days ago By Sharan Dhaliwal
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Furious row among parties after British MPs detained in Israel and deported

Channel: UK UK April 6, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Play Video A protester has been ejected from a speech by Kemi Badenoch at London's Guildhall.

Protesters twice storm speech by Kemi Badenoch about Margaret Thatcher

Channel: Politics Politics March 18, 2025 By Craig Munro
Craig Hamilton Parker pictured with Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch, King Charles and Keir Starmer.

Here's what the 'new Nostradamus' accurately predicted would happen in 2024

Channel: Weird Weird December 31, 2024 By Jasper King
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'Mince pies should be illegal': Food takes more shocking than Kemi Badenoch's

Channel: Food Food December 14, 2024 By Courtney Pochin
Food that Metro's team have controversial hot takes on, including pizza, chocolate, butter, and fish

Metro's most controversial food opinions as Kemi Badenoch says 'sandwiches aren't real'

Channel: Food Food December 13, 2024 By Courtney Pochin
Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich and Kemi Badenoch

Chief bacon sarnie eater fires back over Kemi Badenoch's war on sandwiches

Channel: Politics Politics December 13, 2024 By Craig Munro
JJ O'Dochartaigh, also known as DJ Provai, of the Belfast-based rap group Kneecap, outside Belfast High Court after the Irish language rap-trio won its legal challenge over a decision by former business secretary Kemi Badenoch to refuse them a ?14,250 funding award after the UK Government conceded at Belfast High Court it was "unlawful". Picture date: Friday November 29, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Kneecap. Photo credit should read: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

The Irish rap group who fought the British government — and won

Channel: Music Music November 29, 2024 By Brooke Ivey Johnson
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Starmer becomes first UK leader since Churchill to attend Remembrance in France

Channel: UK UK November 11, 2024 By Tom Sanders
Labour MP Dawn Butler shares tweet linking Kemi Badenoch to 'white supremacy in blackface' PA/Reuters

Keir Starmer gives verdict on Badenoch 'white supremacy' tweet shared by Labour MP

Channel: Politics Politics November 5, 2024 By Craig Munro
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New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch reveals her full shadow cabinet

Channel: Politics Politics November 6, 2024 By Craig Munro
Kemi Badenoch with Laura Kuenssberg on the flagship BBC political show

Kemi Badenoch says government shouldn't have been fined for partygate

Channel: Politics Politics November 3, 2024 By Oliver Jones
Kemi Badenoch with husband Hamish after becoming the new Conservative Party leader.

Inside Kemi Badenoch’s life with husband Hamish after she becomes Tory leader

Channel: Politics Politics November 5, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
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Kemi Badenoch becomes new Conservative Party leader

Channel: Politics Politics November 3, 2024 By Jasper King

Who is in the Tory leadership race and when will the winner be announced?

Channel: UK UK November 2, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
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James Cleverly knocked out of Tory leadership race

Channel: Politics Politics October 10, 2024 By Craig Munro
Play Video BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 2: Conservative Party leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat attends the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, United Kingdom on October 2, 2024. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Tom Tugendhat is latest Tory leader hopeful to be ditched after MPs vote

Channel: Politics Politics October 9, 2024 By Craig Munro
Kemi Badenoch during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. Picture date: Monday September 30, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Tories. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

Kemi Badenoch says people are 'scared to have families' after maternity pay row

Channel: Politics Politics September 30, 2024 By Craig Munro
Play Video BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch speaks to media during the Conservative Party Conference at Birmingham ICC Arena on September 29, 2024 in Birmingham, England. This year's Conservative Conference follows their loss of power at the July General Election seeing the party in opposition for the first time in fourteen years. The party is amid a leadership contest as Rishi Sunak will step down once a successor has been elected. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Kemi Badenoch rows back on her comments over maternity pay after backlash

Channel: Politics Politics September 30, 2024 By Craig Munro