Kemi Badenoch Wins Tory Leadership Race!

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Reaction to the new Conservative Party leader.

Almost four months after their crushing general election defeat, which triggered Rishi Sunak's resignation, the Conservatives have picked their woman.

Laura, Chris and Henry talk through this historic moment, and look at her victory speech and priorities in the coming weeks.

You can listen to the Newscast profile of Kemi Badenoch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k058cc

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Chris Mason and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Ben Mundy with Bella Saltiel. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham

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0:22.2	So, history has been made.
0:24.4	It's 120 days since Rishi Sunak announced he was quitting,
0:27.5	and we have a new conservative leader.
0:30.3	Take it away, Bob Blackman.
0:33.0	The result was Kebby Badenock, 53,806 votes, and Robert Jenrick, 41,381.
0:46.3	Therefore, I give notice that Kebby-Badenok is elected as leader of the Conservative and Unist
0:51.3	Party.
0:52.3	Isn't it great that we've got another female leader.
0:58.5	Bob Blackman, they're not the new Tory leader,
1:01.3	but the boss of the Tory's 1922 committee,
1:04.4	the organisation of backbenchers
1:06.4	that runs elections like this,
1:08.5	announcing that Kemi Bajnock has won the Tory crown.
1:12.6	Henry and Chris, you were both there. Henry, what was it like in the room?
1:15.4	There was a proper crackle of excitement, I think, and nerves, real nerves,
1:19.9	because for all that a lot of people felt there was conventional wisdom here that
1:24.8	Kemi Baderk was going to win, and that conventional wisdom turned out to be
1:28.0	correct. No one knew. There hadn't been loads of polls, not really any proper polls actually, in the
1:33.2	final two of the Conservative membership. So I think a lot of people really didn't know how this was
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