Conservative Leadership Profile: Kemi Badenoch

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is a bonus episode profiling one of the final two candidates in the Conservative leadership election, Kemi Badenoch.

Adam and Alex speak to Fraser Nelson, former editor of The Spectator, who has known Kemi Badenoch for years since they were colleagues at The Spectator. They find out how her childhood in Nigeria and moving to the UK aged 16 influenced her political views, why she’s unafraid of courting controversy and what her pitch to Conservative members is.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, we're bringing you bonus episodes where we profile the final two contenders in the Conservative
0:11.1	Leadership Contest.
0:12.1	We've enlisted our friend Alex Vassai to help. in the Conservative leadership contest.
0:12.6	We've enlisted our friend Alex Versailles to help and we found some people who know the candidates
0:17.5	very well.
0:18.8	This episode is all about Kemi Bedanock.
0:21.9	You can find our episode about Robert Genrick in the newscast feed. Now you may already know that
0:27.2	Kimmy grew up in Nigeria and was Secretary of State for Business and Trade,
0:31.0	but you may not know that she worked at McDonald's as a teenager.
0:35.2	She apparently throws a legendary Burns Night Suppware, and this isn't her first tilt at the leadership.
0:40.9	Her first attempt was back in 2022. We will cover all of that and so much
0:46.0	more on this episode of Newscast.
0:48.4	Newscast.
0:49.4	Newscast from the BBC. We're here to talk us through Camby Bayeinox Life and Times is Alex
0:59.6	Hi Alex.
1:00.6	Hello.
1:01.6	And until very recently the editor of The Spectator magazine
1:03.9	Fraser Nelson hello Fraser.
1:05.9	Hi so Fraser how did you first come across Kimmy Bedanock?
1:10.7	I first came across Kimmy when she was applying for a job at the Spectation. We needed a digital director and we're a small company we didn't have that big a budget. We were astonished to get this kind of young high-flying former sort of Koot's employee showing
1:28.0	up willing to work for the spectator as a budget which was way beyond her ability. Luckily for us she was interested in
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