All news on the topic: Kemi Badenoch

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Rachel Reeves attacks Tories and Reform as Labour moves to scrap two-child benefit cap
Rachel Reeves has criticized the Tories and Reform UK as the government introduces landmark legislation to scrap the cruel two-child benefit limit.
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Westminster taxpayers face £27m cost after builder goes bust
Kemi Badenoch has called for Westminster councillors to be sanctioned for the "catastrophic mess" they created after ignoring concerns about a building firm that went bust during a major housing project.
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Badenoch pushes for renewed action on stalled national grooming gangs inquiry
Kemi Badenoch will seek to press the Government to speed up its efforts to establish a national grooming gangs inquiry on Monday.
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Gordon Brown rejects Tory claims that ending benefit cap encourages ‘welfare scroungers’
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Kemi Badenoch and her allies should “hang their heads in shame” after saying Rachel Reeves had created a ‘Budget for Benefits Street.
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PM backs reeves despite OBR clash over “non-existent” budget gap
The support for the PM seems to be directly conflicting with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which stated it informed the Chancellor as early as October 31 that there was no longer a deficit in the public finances.
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Keir Starmer avoids political damage over chancellor Rachel Reeves’ rental licence row
Keir Starmer seems to have avoided significant political harm from potentially losing his chancellor weeks before the budget, following 24 hours of intense scrutiny over whether Rachel Reeves broke the law by renting out her family home.
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Keir Starmer to release China case evidence, says trial collapse rooted in Tory-era security stance
Keir Starmer has said he will release the crucial evidence from the Chinese espionage case that led to the trial collapsing.
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Welsh Conservatives offer to back Labour budget if land transaction tax is scrapped
The Welsh Conservatives have suggested they will support a Labour budget if the devolved government backs its plans to scrap a tax paid by homebuyers.
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Badenoch accuses Starmer of avoiding scrutiny after spy charges dropped
Kemi Badenoch has addressed a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, demanding answers in Parliament regarding the questions surrounding the collapse of a case against alleged Chinese spies.
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Kemi Badenoch promises to scrap stamp duty in major pledge at Tory conference
Kemi Badenoch has vowed to abolish stamp duty in a keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, calling the levy “a bad tax” that blocks social mobility.
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Top Kemi Badenoch donor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
A donor and personal adviser to Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has defected to Reform, according to reports.
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Tories unveil £1.6bn plan to boost immigration enforcement powers
The Conservatives will pledge to create a new "Removals Force", modeled on US immigration enforcement, which would be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year as part of plans to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
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Badenoch: Starmer ‘lied to the country’ over Mandelson and Epstein
Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “lying to the whole country” about his knowledge of Lord Mandelson’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Liz Truss blames Bank of England for market chaos: ’I wasn’t captain of the ship’
Liz Truss has asserted that the Bank of England was in control during her tenure as prime minister.
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Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘desperate hypocrisy’ over asylum hotel row
Kemi Badenoch has been accused of spouting ’desperate and hypocritical nonsense’ after calling on Tory councils to launch legal challenges over a problem her party caused
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JD Vance meets Robert Jenrick during Cotswolds holiday, skips in-person meeting with Kemi Badenoch
Conservative spokesperson says scheduling meeting of US vice-president and party leader had been difficult
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Norman Tebbit, ally of Margaret Thatcher and architect of 1980s hardline policies, dies
Norman Tebbit, who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, has died aged 94.
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Tears of the chancellor: Rachel Reeves explains why she broke down during her speech in parliament
Rachel Reeves stated she was ’clearly upset’ during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, but believed it was her duty to be on the front bench.
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Rachel Reeves breaks down in Parliament: Starmer failed to guarantee her continued tenure as Chancellor
Rachel Reeves was moved to tears during Prime Minister’s Questions as Sir Keir Starmer did not assure her continued position as Chancellor.
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UK Parliament approves assisted suicide bill: 314 MPs vote in favor
MPs have voted to pass Kim Leadbeater’s landmark Assisted Dying Bill.
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Tories demand an apology after Keir Starmer reverses stance on grooming gangs
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of a U-turn after committing to a statutory inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.
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Nigel Farage disagrees with Trump’s claim of Zelenskyy being a ’dictator’
Reform leader contradicts Trump rant, stating ’you shouldn’t always take things Donald Trump says absolutely literally.’
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Starmer supports ’democratically elected’ Zelenskyy following Trump’s ’dictator’ remark about the Ukrainian leader
The prime minister’s show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch refuted Mr. Trump’s comment but said the US leader was right that Europe "needs to pull its weight".
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Judge ’deeply troubled’ by PMQs exchange on Gazans settling in UK
The most senior judge in England and Wales has said she was "deeply troubled" by comments made by Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch over a judge’s ruling in an immigration case.
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Badenoch and Farage to compete for the attention of Trump allies at London summit
Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will gather global right-wing figures, including senior US Republicans.