Kemi Badenoch isn't working | Cover Story with Tom McTague
The Politics Show23 Heinä 2025

Kemi Badenoch isn't working | Cover Story with Tom McTague

She was the Tory saviour. Now, by November, she could be gone.


Where did it all go wrong for Kemi Badenoch?


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For this week's New Statesman magazine, Will Lloyd has written a powerful and revealing profile of the Nigerian immigrant who rose to lead the Conservative Party.


Will joins Tom McTague to discuss what he discovered in the course of his reporting, including why Conservative grandees first celebrated, then turned against, Kemi Badenoch.


They explore whether racism plays a role in the way Badenoch has been treated, and whether the woman who some cast as a new Thatcher was ever as able as the Conservatives wanted to believe.


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Read Will Lloyd's profile of Kemi Badenoch in the New Statesman magazine, or online: Kemi Badenoch isn't working


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