Interview: Kemi Badenoch

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, Newscast hears from Kemi Badenoch who has made it into the final two of the Conservative leadership race.

Kemi speaks to Adam and Chris about her early life in Nigeria and her political journey, she reflects on her reputation for being direct in interactions with colleagues, and why she’s pitching principles rather than policies to attempt to win over the Conservative membership. She discusses her time in government, what she believes the party has got wrong and how she’ll try to change the party if she wins.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, Chris and I have been chatting to Kemi Badenock in the newscast studio in Westminster.
0:11.2	She is half of the final two contenders for the Tory leadership and you can find
0:16.1	our interview with the other half Robert Genrich in the podcast feed a little bit further down the list. So here is our interview with
0:24.0	Kimmy Bedenock in full on this bonus extra episode of Newscast.
0:28.1	Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Kimu Badenock, hello.
0:36.0	Hello.
0:37.0	Hello.
0:38.0	Welcome to newscast.
0:39.0	And as I always remind people, there is no bad in Bad
0:42.0	that's the phrase phrase isn't it?
0:43.2	Yeah it's fine I'm finding that running for leader has been very helpful in
0:47.2	ceding the correct pronunciation of of of my name but of course it's not it's not usual in Scotland the place is called
0:55.9	badenock but my husband's family have anglicized it to bea donock that's that's the
1:01.1	that's the route of it changing.
1:02.8	Yes, so they say Bedanock.
1:04.3	So as somebody who has acquired the name by marriage,
1:08.3	I want to respect their wishes.
1:11.0	Are you kind of like half Scottish now then? Maybe, maybe. To be honest, my husband is actually a mix of lots of things. He's part Irish, Austrian and Scottish, but he's part Irish Austrian and Scottish but he's a Londoner so you
1:26.0	know we're all lots of different we're lots of different things so I can claim
1:29.6	some Scottish by marriage now I thought the first time you and I met was in 2009 at the
1:35.6	Tory Party conference when we did a quick little clip for the daily politics and
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