England’s New Conservative Superstar
Kemi Badenoch. (Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)
Kemi Badenoch used to work at McDonalds. Now she’s become the breakout star of the Tory Party.
At a small dinner party earlier this year—months before Boris Johnson resigned and she threw her hat in the ring to become prime minister, coming closer than anyone predicted—Kemi Badenoch, the 42-year-old MP for the Essex market town of Saffron Walden, was absorbed in fixing the TV so that it played cheesy early 2000s tunes. It was confusing to have to…
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