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Kemi Badenoch has served as the Leader of the Opposition as Leader of the Conservative Party since 2 November 2024, following her victory in the 2024 Conservative Leadership election. [1] The election was triggered by Rishi Sunak's resignation as party leader following the 2024 general election, which the Labour Party under Keir Starmer won. [2]
Badenoch appointed Rebecca Harris as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party in her first appointment to her Shadow Cabinet on 4 November 2024, as she began forming her opposition frontbench. [124] On 15 January 2025, Kemi Badenoch's spokesperson confirmed she will not conduct a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle before the next general election. [125]
The final officeholder was Kemi Badenoch, following her appointment by Prime Minister Liz Truss in September 2022; she was subsequently reappointed by Rishi Sunak in October 2022. [3] In February 2023, the position was abolished, with its duties merging with those of the Business Secretary to become Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
Sir Keir Starmer hit back at Kemi Badenoch’s suggestion that he should resign in light of a petition calling for a general election during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 27 November.
Kemi Badenoch has called on Keir Starmer’s anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq to resign amid ongoing questions over gifts she received from her aunt’s regime in Bangladesh.. Pressure is ...
Kemi Badenoch has said her time as Tory leader has gone “as well as it possibly could” and that she will not be hurried into taking definitive policy positions.. Despite a gaffe-filled first ...
Kemi Badenoch, who resigned as local government minister on 6 July, announced her candidacy on 8 July in an article for The Times in which she said she wanted to "tell the truth" and advocated "strong but limited government". [84] She worked as a banker before becoming the MP for Saffron Walden in 2017. [85]
Kemi Badenoch declined to say how she would plug a gap left in the public finances by Rishi Sunak (PA Wire) “I believe that we need to have free and fair competition, not monopolies, not rent ...