On Saturday, Kemi Badenoch became the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK - and the sixth Tory leader in less than eight and a half years. A lengthy leadership contest began after Rishi Sunak stood down in the wake of the election ...

Kemi Badenoch attended her first PMQs as leader of the Conservative Party today. It didn’t go well. In one of the first questions put to the prime minister, the Labour MP Jacob Collier criticised Badenoch’s widely reported comments about maternity pay. During the Tory leadership election, she suggested that maternity pay in the UK is ‘excessive’.

Kemi Badenoch said she will tell "hard truths" to both the country and her party as she began her first full day as Conservative leader. In her first interview since winning the Tory leadership election, Badenoch said the UK is getting poorer and older, and is being "outcompeted" by other countries.

Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the Conservative Party, defeating Robert Jenrick in the final round of voting.Badenoch, who was raised in Nigeria, is the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK and takes over a Conservative Party reeling from its worst ever election defeat.

Five minutes into Kemi Badenoch's debut as Tory leader at PMQs and Keir Starmer was like a cartoon character who'd been knocked senseless, stars spinning around his head.

She would cross the road to bite your ankles, whether you were goading her or not!”This is a remark from a long term admirer of Kemi Badenoch, delighted to see her win the Conservative leadership contest.

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