After a record defeat in Britain’s last election, many Conservatives decided that they needed to be more populist. Their ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to British commentator, Inaya Folarin Iman, about the remarkable rise of Kemi Badenoch who this month became the first black woman to lead a major UK party.

The London-born daughter of Nigerian parents presides over the ruins of 14 years of Tory rule. Can her brand of nativism-lite ...

Kemi Badenoch’s win didn’t come out of nowhere. To secure her seat, she effectively united a fragmented Conservative base.

The UK has historically had a cross-party consensus on the need to tackle climate change among most politicians and voters. Only five MPs voted against the Climate Change Act in 2008, and both Labour ...

Badenoch has always presented herself as a no-nonsense, right-of-center conservative with a powerful belief in free markets and personal responsibility.

Dame Priti Patel has been appointed shadow foreign secretary, despite having been fired from Baroness May’s Cabinet over ...

Kemi Badenoch’s ascent is partly the result of a deliberate diversifying of the party under David Cameron in the 2000s. In ...

After winning the Conservative party’s protracted post-election leadership contest, Kemi Badenoch gave a short, rather ...

Kemi Badenoch was born in a private Catholic maternity hospital in Wimbledon, and grew up in Nigeria where her father was a ...

The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks ...

Never frightened to ruffle feathers, Kemi Badenoch’s willingness to say what others may regard as unsayable has made her the darling of the Tory grassroots. Her forthright views on issues from ...