Unlike the Leader of the Opposition Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch (Kemi Badenoch for short), who claims to be British with Yoruba heritage but denies any ...

By Rachel Cunliffe The Conservative Party is under new leadership. That was the key takeaway from Kemi Badenoch’s speech today, her first of 2025 and her big opportunity to tell a country that roundly ...

Floundering Kemi Badenoch has ruled out a merger with Nigel Farage's Reform after being challenged over him becoming "the voice of the right". Ms Badenoch used a speech in central London to blast ...

Kemi Badenoch has just slammed the policies from the Conservative government she was part of in her first major speech of 2025. Badenoch said she would “acknowledge the Conservative Party made ...

Kemi Badenoch has rejected a suggestion the Tories could merge with Reform UK to beat Labour in the next election. The Conservative leader also criticised the actions of Tory-led governments she ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised her predecessors for mishandling Brexit, saying leaving the EU without a growth plan was a "mistake". In her first major speech of 2025 ...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will not be changing her shadow cabinet around at all in the next four years, according to her spokesperson. As questions over Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ future in the ...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will not be changing her shadow cabinet around at all in the next four years, according to her spokesperson. As questions over Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ future ...

Kemi Badenoch has blamed the grooming gangs scandal on people of a “peasant background” who come from “sub-communities” within some foreign countries. The Tory leader repeated her call for ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said grooming gang perpetrators are "peasants" from "sub-communities" in other countries. She has now met survivors after revealing last week she had not met any ...

Mrs Badenoch said cultural issues surrounding the problem also needed to be examined. “One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation ...