Kemi Badenoch

Former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has received the highly sought-after endorsement of Michael Gove in her bid to become the next leader of the ...

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Political infighting sees Prime Minister toppled; meanwhile the cost of living crisis rages on, our tax burden remains at its highest in decades and is set to ...

This is why Kemi Badenoch commands my support for leader of the Conservative Party and our next Prime Minister. Without a clear narrative and the ability to show how the conservative principles of freedom, hard work, enterprise, and opportunity make a positive and tangible difference to people’s lives, we do not have a hope of returning a Conservative majority at the next election. The answers to these questions are conservative ones – as Margaret Thatcher said, the very facts of life are conservative. Her ability to cut through the Westminster milieu and focus relentlessly on ordinary people can partly be explained by her background. I understand just how important it is to have an honest, straight-talking leader who will be direct with voters about the challenges that we are facing as a nation, and how we are going to take them on. But we now have an opportunity to set that right, by electing a leader who understands this problem and how to overcome it – someone that knows that ordinary people do not want simplified slogans and comfortable falsehoods, but the truth about our problems and a clear path through them.

A British woman of Nigeria extraction, Kemi Badenoch, has declared her intention to succeed Boris Johnson as the next UK Prime Minister.

Badenoch joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at the age of 25. Badenoch was born in Wimbledon, London, to Nigerian parents. Her childhood was spent in part of the United States of America, and in Lagos, Nigeria. She returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 16.

Kemi Badenoch, former UK equalities minister, has launched a bid to become the country's next prime minister and leader of the Conservative party.

“Without change the Conservative Party, Britain and the western world will continue to drift. “It won’t be enough just to offer better management of relative decline. Several ministers also resigned their positions.

And he said the words that many Tory members, and political commentators, have been thinking – that someone as straight-talking and unapologetic as Mrs Badenoch ...

And the right support is something she does have. So far, she has said she intends to lower taxes and “limit government” – reducing the size of the state so that it will only focus on the essentials. She has made no secret as to who she is appealing to – complaining about “the shutting down of debate” and stressing the need to “reinvigorate the case for free speech”.

Former cabinet minister praises candidate's “no-bulls**t" approach.

Badenoch, 42, has long been seen as a rising star in the party and has focused on culture war issues as part of her pitch. Gove said: “she has the opportunity to use her first class brain to fix the big problems facing our country.” Writing in The Sun, he said: “Kemi doesn’t just win the argument, she delivers – on getting the Whitehall machine to embark on new policies and on levelling up Britain.”

I had turned up to a sweltering tent at the House of Lords expecting to hear former tennis player Martina Navratilova talk about the importance of free speech ...

A mind that can get to the bottom of a complicated issue quickly and absorb advice critically, as Badenoch can, does not require years of useless inactivity in Cabinet to make decisions. But I would like to see most of the "experienced" candidates in this contest command the Commons as powerfully as Badenoch can. She will state clearly that she doesn't believe in compromising on some matters, like in the battle to paint British history as a long saga of wickedness.