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Kemi Badenoch laid out his crusade for the leadership of the Conservatives on Tuesday, claiming to be the “new face” the Conservative Party needs.
The former Equality Minister, who heads the party, is on an anti-wake, small-government platform.
She told the crowd in Westminster that “there are possible complicated choices in life and in politics; there are no loose meals, no endless tax cuts on public spending, no more potent defense without a thinner state. “
The 42-year-old MP for Saffron Walden has the statement of more than a dozen Conservative colleagues, adding Michael Gove, who was sacked as cabinet minister by Boris Johnson for a while before being forced to resign.
Born in Wimbledon, Ms. Badenoch lived in the United States and Nigeria as a child before returning to the United Kingdom at the age of 16.
He talked about running at McDonald’s while reading to get his A-levels in Morden.
After completing a master’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Sussex, he worked for corporations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, banks and Spectator magazine.
He joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at the age of 25.
Five years later, she ran as a Conservative candidate in Dulwich and West Norwood, completing third place in the vote won through Labor’s Tessa Jowell.
In 2012, he ran for the Conservatives in the London Assembly election.
The party won only 3 seats and Mrs Badenoch took fifth place on the all-London list, Suella Braverman in fourth place, meaning she was not elected.
In the 2015 general election, Tory City Council Victoria Borwick was elected MP and resigned her seat in the London Assembly.
Braverman, who is the Conservative leader alongside Badenoch, also won a seat in the House of Commons the same year and refused to fill the vacancy.
Ms. Badenoch was called to the seat on the City Council in September 2015. He then retained it in the 2016 London Assembly election.
She was critical of the London Conservatives for the economy and also served on the Transport Committee and the Police and Crime Committee.
In the 2017 election, she ran for Saffron Walden’s Conservative seat in Essex and was elected to Parliament.
She described herself as an example of the “British dream”, an “immigrant who came to the UK at age 16 and a parliamentarian” in a generation.
Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher have been named among their heroes.
Badenoch is one of the few Conservative leadership hopefuls who has never held a cabinet post.
She resigned as Minister of Equality and Minister of the Levelling Department on 6 July. He had lost confidence in Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
Previously, she was Secretary of the Treasury at the Treasury from February 2020 to September 2021 and Delegate Minister at the Ministry of Education from July 2019 to February 2020.
Mrs Badenoch is a Brexiteer.
In an enthusiastic first speech to Parliament, he described the referendum as “the vote of confidence never given to the UK project”.
Her banker husband, Hamish, a former conservative adviser to Merton, an unwavering remnant.
“We had discussions but we respected everyone’s point of view,” Badenoch told the Independent in 2017.
Badenoch has been criticized for publicly shaming journalist Nadine White year.
The HuffPost reporter had asked in the office of the then equality minister about clues that Badenoch had refused to participate in a video with black politicians from all parties to inspire the adoption of the covid-19 vaccine.
Screenshots of Ms. White’s two emails were shared on Twitter through Ms. Badenoch, who called them “scary and strange. “
I work for an investigation and Ms White said the MP’s moves set a damaging precedent, threatening the role of a loose press.
Ms. Badenoch admitted to “hacking” Harriet Harman’s in 2008 as part of a “silly joke. “
She had guessed the Labor MP’s password and then published a fake blog post claiming the then Minister for Women and Equality was backing Boris Johnson in the London election.
In 2018, he told Core Politics, “About 10 years ago, I hacked. . . a Labour MP’s online page and replaced everything there to say good things about the Conservatives. “