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Kemi Badenoch: UK Conservatives’ new leader fighting ‘left-wing nonsense’​

She was a passionate supporter of Brexit and threw her weight behind the much-maligned Rwanda deportation scheme. But what else does she bring as leader?

Kemi Badenoch gives a speech after becoming the new leader of the Conservative Party on November 2, 2024 in London, England [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]
By Simon Speakman Cordall
Published On 4 Nov 20244 Nov 2024




The election of Kemi Badenoch, a 44-year-old former software engineer, to the leadership of the UK’s Conservative Party – the first Black woman to lead a major British political party – comes at the end of a protracted contest triggered by the worst electoral defeat in the party’s history in July this year.