The Kemi Badenoch for Leader One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What shaped the views and principles that Kemi Badenoch hopes will help her win the race to become next leader of the Conservative Party?
Nick Robinson sits down with the former Business Secretary near the end of her party's leadership contest.
Producer: Daniel Kraemer
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Political Thinking. |
| 0:06.3 | My guest this week is trying to follow in the footsteps of the woman she says |
| 0:09.4 | inspired her to go into politics. |
| 0:11.7 | Margaret Thatcher, what makes Kimmy Badenock's story so remarkable |
| 0:15.4 | is that throughout the Thatcher years she was living not here in Britain but in Nigeria where she was |
| 0:20.9 | brought up until the age of 16. If the former Conservative |
| 0:24.8 | Business Secretary does win her party's leadership against Robert Chenrich, |
| 0:29.1 | who I interviewed on political thinking a few weeks ago, she like Thatcher, will make political history. |
| 0:37.0 | She'll be the first black woman to lead any party in this country. |
| 0:42.0 | Kimmy Baden on. Welcome back to political thinking. in this country. Kimbaid not. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome back to political thinking. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you, Nick. |
| 0:46.0 | It is four years since we talked. |
| 0:48.0 | And we focused then a lot on your personal story. |
| 0:52.0 | And I asked you at the end of that interview if you thought |
| 0:54.9 | you would ever see a black prime minister in your lifetime and you said to me why not have you now concluded there will be one and it'll be you? Well I have |
| 1:07.5 | concluded there could be one and it could be me but that depends if the |
| 1:11.8 | Conservative Party members decide that I am their person. |
| 1:15.6 | But if they do so, they won't be doing it on the basis of the colour of my skin. |
| 1:19.8 | They'll be doing it because of the values and principles which we share. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah and a lot of what I want to do in this interview is talk about those values and |
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