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Kemi Badenoch Becomes First Black Female Conservative Party Leader

Kemi Badenoch, the first Black woman to lead a major British political party, aims to uphold conservative principles and challenge left-wing ideologies in ...

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Voices: Kemi Badenoch’s victory shows the Tories’ survival instinct has finally kicked in

The new Conservative leader faces an almost impossible mission to take the party back to power

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch calls for Tories to be honest about mistakes as she’s elected Conservative leader

Kemi Badenoch was elected Tory leader on Saturday with 53,806 votes, beating Robert Jenrick with 41,388 votes

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Kemi Badenoch takes on ‘tough but simple’ task after winning Tory leadership

The North West Essex MP became the first black woman to be elected as the leader of a major UK political party.

Evening Standard

Read Kemi Badenoch’s speech in full as new Tory leader: ‘The time has come to tell the truth’

She beat Robert Jenrick in a ballot of Conservative Party members

The Independent UK

From a childhood in Nigeria to Tory leader: the remarkable rise of Kemi Badenoch

The woman who now leads the Conservative party was born in London, but growing up in west Africa shaped the politician she would become, writes Sunder Katwala

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch’s first speech as Conservative Party leader in full

Ms Badenoch defeated Robert Jenrick to become the new leader of the Tories.

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Kemi Badenoch: The darling of the Tory right bidding to lead them back to power

Kemi Badenoch has defeated Robert Jenrick to become new leader of the Conservative Party.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

The former business secretary secured 53,806 votes from Tory members after topping the MPs’ ballot.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader – as it happened

Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’

The Guardian - UK

Tories warned by watchdog over ‘tax calculator’ that appeared to collect voter data

The ICO has written to the party after a complaint was made about an online tax calculator tool that also appeared to collect voter data

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak keen to remain MP after jetting-off jibes, insist friends

Former PM wants to prove a point by staying the course, but other Tories said to be mulling their own early exit

The Guardian - UK

New Conservative Party leader to be crowned

Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be crowned as the new Conservative Party leader on Saturday.

The Independent UK

New Conservative Party leader to be crowned as Jenrick and Badenoch await outcome

Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be crowned as the new Conservative Party leader on Saturday.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

Evening Standard

Government urged to do right thing and reverse ‘family farm tax’

The Government is restricting the generosity of agricultural relief in a bid to make the inheritance tax system ‘fairer’.

The Guardian - UK

UK’s Labour just unveiled its first budget in 14 years – what is in it and will it work?

Chancellor’s solutions to improving economy and public services will be a radical change for country

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What is the history of newspaper endorsements and can they swing elections?

The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are at the centre of a heated debate about endorsement and press freedom.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Nimco Ali: It has to be Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader, not lobotomised, hard-Right Robert Jenrick

I have known Kemi Badenoch for a while — I met her at an Evening Standard event in 2017 — and the picture we took at that event recently popped up on my social media memories and I took a moment to think: could I ever have imagined that seven…

Evening Standard

Fact check: Image of Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been manipulated

The Conservative Party shared a doctored photograph of the Chancellor.

Evening Standard

Tony Blair: Why there has to be compromise to end the Ukraine war

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

Former chancellor says ‘increasing borrowing means interest rates would be higher for longer’ as Reeves says it will ‘make space for investment’

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the Conservative party: in the race to be Tory leader, the candidates ignore Britain’s pressing issues

Neither Robert Jenrick nor Kemi Badenoch have said much about the economic state the country was left in

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch claims Tory Party could cease to exist if Robert Jenrick wins leadership race

Kemi Badenoch warned her opponent risked reopening post-Brexit divides in the UK with his ‘Leave versus Remain’ framing of the debate about the European Convention on Human Rights

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick denies privately telling Tory MPs he would pivot back to centre if he became leader – as it happened

Tory leadership also suggests it was a mistake for him to order murals at a children’s asylum centre to be painted over

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