Kemi Badenoch new Tory leader – elected with a majority of 10,000
Kemi Badenoch new Tory leader
On Saturday 2 November, the Conservative Party announced Kemi Badenoch the party’s new leader.
The race was between Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch. Kemi replaces Rishi Sunak as the new leader.
Hamish Badenoch was at his wife’s side as she celebrated her victory. Hamish, a managing director at Deutsche Bank, met Badenoch in 2009. The couple married at a Catholic Church in Mayfair in 2012. they have three children.
She won the final ballot of party members with 53,806 votes.
Badenoch is the fourth female leader of the Conservative Party. Her combative personality has drawn frequent comparisons with Thatcher, the first woman to lead the party.
It comes almost four months after the Tories’ crushing general election defeat which triggered Sunak’s resignation.
During the early 1990s, when a teenage Kemi Adegoke attended the International School Lagos, a co-educational college in the Nigerian capital, she was already looking to Westminster for inspiration.
“She talks about growing up as a little girl in Nigeria, which has a more misogynistic culture,” said a Badenoch ally. “Boys would say, ‘Why do you like maths and science, get back in the kitchen’ and Kemi would say, ‘Look at Margaret Thatcher — women can be strong and powerful too’.”
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