According to Blue Ambition, a biography written by Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft, it was at Sussex University that Badenoch got a taste for right-wing politics - becoming "radicalised" by the ...

The Conservative MP is far from the only politician to play up her working-class credentials and the changing nature of class ...

Kemi Badenoch will take on Robert Jenrick in a ... but moved with her family to Lagos in Nigeria as a very young baby. She was raised in west Africa before returning to Britain again at the ...

The global average birthrate for twins is around 12 per 1,000 births, but in Igbo-Ora, a community in Nigeria’s southwest, ...

Britain’s opposition Conservative Party will choose either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch to be its next leader ...

Kemi Badenoch has made it clear she wants to clamp down on migration to the UK, claiming that many use Britain as “a sponge”.

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Mrs Badenoch, the current bookies’ favourite to become leader of the Opposition next month, said she would be “Labour’s worst ...

Olukemi Adegoke, 44, was born in Wimbledon and spent her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria ... is that Kemi will argue her point In her 2017 speech to conference Badenoch spoke of her father instilling ...

In his conference speech, 42-year-old Jenrick laid out five key changes for the party to challenge Labour: an immigration cap ...

While her supporters praise her for being ‘straight-talking’, she has also been accused of making enemies far too easily ...

Kemi Badenoch put her faltering leadership campaign back on track with a powerful speech to end the Tory conference.