Meanwhile in the UK Tory Election
By Bob Small
The British Tories, currently in opposition, just elected a new leader. The reason this matters is because the newly elected Labor Government is losing support fairly regularly.
The British Tories emerged in 1679. Earlier this year, they suffered their worst electoral defeat to Labor since 1832. The Tories had their multi-step convoluted election process to elect their new leader. This produced Kemi Badenoch, born Olukemi Adegoke (1980) in London.
She has an LLB, Bachelor of Laws, from Birkbeck, University of London. K
She is married to Hamish Badenoch and they have three children. She has served in the Tory Government in various positions.
She posits herself as a “critic of multiculturalism and a self-proclaimed enemy of wokeness”. In an interview with BBC, she said “I do speak my mind. And I tell the truth”.
She beat Robert Jenrick 53, 806 votes to 41, 388 votes. Only a third of the Tories voted for her. She becomes the sixth Tory leader in eight and a half years, During her campaign she said “Our first responsibility as His Majesty’s loyal opposition is to hold this Labour government to account. “
She does seem opposed to wokeness.
“I would be congratulating Prime Minister Netanyahu,” she told Sky News following the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in September. ‘She also wrote, in the Daily Mail, that the post-October invasion crowds were protesting against Jews under the guise of attacking Israel,”
She also opened up negotiations with the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Gulf Cooperation Council describing it as “an enormous opportunity for UK firms.”
The Tories have fallen from 172,000 members in 2022 to 131,000 , a drop of almost 25 percent. She takes over at a time when the Tories lost more than 200 seats in the House of Commons in this year’s general election.
See also Tories already wonder if Kemi Badenoch will last until from the Guardian, a pro-Labor paper.
Meanwhile in the UK Tory Election