Kemi Badenoch wins race to be next Tory leader

Kemi Badenoch has won the contention to beryllium the adjacent person of the Conservative Party.

The 44-year-old North West Essex MP has been declared the victor of the months-long contest, beating Robert Jenrick.

Ms Badenoch received 53,806 votes to Mr Jenrick's 41,388.

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Ms Badenoch has served arsenic shadiness concern and commercialized caput since the Conservative Party mislaid the wide predetermination successful July and Rishi Sunak said helium would basal down arsenic leader, triggering the campaign.

Her run was called Renewal 2030 and has targeted the adjacent predetermination for the Tories to instrumentality to power.

Ms Badenoch has been criticised astatine times for her outspoken approach, with opponents jumping connected comments she has made astir subjects specified arsenic maternity pay, sex equality and nett zero.

But she has agelong been fashionable among the enactment membership, and antecedently ran to beryllium person successful 2022.

It is not wide who her shadiness furniture volition beryllium made up of, but she has suggested that all those who ran to beryllium person against her should beryllium involved.

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