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…
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.
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