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I am somebody who wants the color of our skin to be no more significant than the color of our hair or the color of our eyes."
Asked at the Conservative Party conference earlier this year how it would feel to become the first Black woman leader of the party, she said I'm not a wallflower. And people will often take your strengths and present them as weaknesses,
I'd like to congratulate Kemi Badenoch on being elected leader of the Conservative Party
And Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey added Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch as Tory leader
And Josh Babarinde, the Lib Dem MP whose father is Nigerian, added It is time to get down to business, it is time to renew,
The time has come to tell the truth,
she told an audience at the final count of a months-long leadership contest, promising to answer the main questions over how the Conservatives lost the July election so badly It's quite unusual for someone to take over when a party gets very badly beaten and manage to lead it to election victory,
To all intents and purposes, I am a first-generation immigrant,
she told the Commons in her 2017 maiden speech I am Labour’s worst nightmare, they can’t paint me as prejudiced
was a recent Telegraph interview headline We are defending our culture, we are defending our country,
There is a part of me that would enjoy the banter of us making Labour’s heads explode by electing a Black female leader while they call us sexists and racists out of the window of their pink minibus.”
One senior Conservative Party organizer said of Badenoch I’d love to start off by talking about how my family has been here for generations and generations — but I think we all know that’s not true.”
In one hustings she got the local members onside by opening Too many of the predominantly left-wing ruling class still see Black people as a homogeneous, monolithic bloc,
she wrote in the Times this month The bickering and infighting in the parliamentary party was maddening for Tory members and it put a lot of people off voting for our party,
The Prime Minister is discovering all too late the perils of not having such a plan. That huge job begins today.”
Pointing to the chaos that has rocked Labour, she said The time has come to tell the truth, to stand up for our principles, to plan for our future. To reset our politics and our thinking, and to give our party and our country the new start that they deserve. It is time to get down to business. It is time to renew,
Our party is critical to the success of our country. But to be heard, we have to be honest. Honest about the fact that we made mistakes, honest about the fact that we left standards slip,
It is the most enormous honor to be elected to this role,
Badenoch said, giving her maiden speech as party leader shortly after the results were announced You and I know that we don’t actually disagree on very much, and I have no doubt that you have a key role to play in our party for many years to come.”
She praised Jenrick despite a sometimes bruising campaign, saying These stupid lefty white kids didn’t know what they were talking about,
she once said in an interview
