Published 5 November 2024 at 14.08
Foreign. Kemi Badenoch has been appointed as the new leader of the British Conservative Party. It makes her the first black woman to lead a major political party in Britain.
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Kemi Badenoch, 44, takes over from former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and has vowed to return the party to its original principles after its election loss last summer.
She won 57 percent of the vote in the last round of the leadership election, defeating former immigration minister Robert Jenrick.
Kemi Badenoch belongs to the right wing of the party and is expected to push issues of reducing the role of the state and challenging what she describes as left-leaning institutional ideology.
Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes her victory.
– The first black leader of a Westminster party, it is a moment of pride for our country, he says.
Kemi Badenoch, who is Nigerian, has previously emphasized that she does not want to focus on her skin colour.
p>- I am someone who wants our skin color to be as insignificant as the color of our hair or our eyes, she said at a party conference earlier this year.