Kemi Badenoch
Leader of the Conservative Party
Kemi Badenoch
Leader of the Conservative Party
Kemi Badenoch, born on January 2, 1980, in Wimbledon, London, is a British politician and the current Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition as of November 2024. She spent part of her childhood in Nigeria and the United States before moving back to the UK at 16. Badenoch studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex and later obtained a law degree from Birkbeck, University of London. Before her political career, she worked as a software engineer and later held roles in the financial sector, including as an associate director at Coutts and a digital director at The Spectator.
Kemi Badenoch Demands Starmer Apology Amid Trans Row: 'Woman Is an Adult Female'
- Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Kemi Badenoch demanded that Keir Starmer apologize to women after he finally spoke out on the Supreme Court's biological sex ruling, which declared that a woman is an adult female. She also urged him to apologize to MP Rosie Duffield, who was hounded out of Labour for advocating for female-only spaces, and to crack down on trans activists who defaced Westminster statues in protest against the judgment.