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The Right Honourable
Kemi Badenoch
MP
Official portrait, 2022
Secretary of State for Business and Trade[a]
President of the Board of Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 September 2022
Secretary of State for International Trade
(6 September 2022 - 7 February 2023)
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byAnne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister for Women and Equalities
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 October 2022
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byNadhim Zahawi[b]
Junior ministerial offices
Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities
In office
16 September 2021 – 6 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byLuke Hall
Succeeded byPaul Scully
Minister of State for Equalities[c]
In office
14 February 2020 – 6 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Baroness Williams of Trafford
Succeeded byAmanda Solloway
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
In office
13 February 2020 – 16 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySimon Clarke
Succeeded byHelen Whately
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
In office
27 July 2019 – 13 February 2020
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byNadhim Zahawi
Succeeded byVicky Ford
Member of Parliament
for Saffron Walden
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded byAlan Haselhurst
Majority27,594 (43.7%)
Member of the London Assembly
as the 4th Additional Member
In office
5 May 2016 – 8 June 2017
Preceded byGareth Bacon
Succeeded bySusan Hall
Member of the London Assembly
as the 9th Additional Member
In office
16 September 2015 – 5 May 2016
Preceded byVictoria Borwick
Succeeded byShaun Bailey
Personal details
Born
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke

(1980-01-02) 2 January 1980 (age 44)
Wimbledon, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Hamish Badenoch
​
(m. 2012)​
Children3
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • software engineer
  • lawyer
  • consultant
  • banker
Websitekemibadenoch.org.uk

Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-nok;[1] née Adegoke, 2 January 1980)[2] is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Business and Trade since 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022.[3][4] She previously served in a series of junior ministerial positions under Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since 2017.

Born in Wimbledon, London, to Yoruba parents, Badenoch spent parts of her childhood in Lagos and the United States before returning to the United Kingdom at 16. After graduating from the University of Sussex, she was a software engineer at Logica before studying law at Birkbeck, University of London. Badenoch later pursued a career in banking, working for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Coutts.

In 2012, Badenoch unsuccessfully contested a seat on the London Assembly, but was appointed to the body after Victoria Borwick resigned in 2015. A supporter of Brexit in the 2016 referendum, Badenoch was elected to the House of Commons in 2017. After Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, Badenoch was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families. In the February 2020 reshuffle, she was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities. In September 2021, she was promoted to Minister of State for Equalities and appointed Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities. In July 2022, Badenoch resigned from the government and unsuccessfully stood to replace Johnson in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.[5][6] Following Liz Truss's appointment as Prime Minister in September 2022, she appointed Badenoch as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade; she was reappointed by Truss's successor, Rishi Sunak, the following month.

In a February 2023 cabinet reshuffle, Badenoch was moved into the role of Secretary of State for Business and Trade following the merging of Department for International Trade with elements of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Badenoch retained the responsibilities of equalities minister.[4]

Early life

Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7] She is the daughter of Femi Adegoke and Feyi Adegoke, who are of Yoruba origin. Her family was middle class while she was growing up in Nigeria; her father was a GP and her mother is a professor of physiology. Badenoch's childhood included living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States, where her mother lectured.[8][9][10] She has a brother named Fola and a sister called Lola.[11] She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother's owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.[12] Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was "to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant" during her parliamentary maiden speech.[13]

Education and private sector career

She obtained A Levels from Phoenix College, a former further education college in Morden, whilst working at a branch of McDonald's among other jobs.[7][10] Badenoch studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, completing a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in 2003.[14][15] She initially worked within the IT sector, first as a software engineer at Logica (later CGI Group) from 2003 to 2006.

While working there she studied law part-time at Birkbeck, University of London, and completed a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 2009.[10] Badenoch then worked as a systems analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group,[16] before pursuing a career in consultancy and financial services, working as an associate director of private bank and wealth manager Coutts from 2006 to 2013 and later a digital director at The Spectator from 2015 to 2016.[15][17][18]

Early political career

Badenoch in 2017 speaking at the London Assembly's Energy Committee

Badenoch joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at the age of 25.[19][20] At the 2010 general election, she contested the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency against Labour's Tessa Jowell and came third.[21]

London Assembly

In 2012, Badenoch stood for the Conservatives in the London Assembly election, where she was placed fifth on the London-wide list.[22] The election saw the Conservatives win only three seats from the London-wide list, so Badenoch was not elected.[23]

Three years later, in the 2015 general election, Victoria Borwick was elected to the House of Commons[24] and subsequently resigned her seat on the London Assembly. The fourth-placed candidate on the list, Suella Fernandes, had also been elected to the House of Commons,[25] and declined to fill the vacancy. Badenoch (as she had become, following her marriage in 2012) was therefore declared to be the new Assembly Member.[26] She went on to retain her seat in the Assembly in the 2016 election.[27] Badenoch supported Brexit in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.[8]

Parliamentary career

Badenoch was shortlisted to be the Conservative Party candidate for the marginal Hampstead and Kilburn constituency at the 2017 general election, but was unsuccessful.[28] She was ultimately selected as the Conservative candidate for Saffron Walden, a safe seat for her party, which she held with 37,629 votes and a majority of 24,966 (41.0%).[8][29][30]

Early tenure

In her maiden speech as an MP on 19 July, she described the vote for Brexit as "the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom" and cited her personal heroes as the Conservative politicians Winston Churchill, Airey Neave and Margaret Thatcher.[31]

In the same month, Badenoch was selected to join the 1922 Executive Committee.[32] In September, she was appointed to the parliamentary Justice Select Committee.[33] She was appointed as the Conservative Party's Vice Chair for Candidates in January 2018.[34]

She voted for Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement in early 2019. In the indicative votes on 27 March, she voted against a referendum on a withdrawal agreement and against a customs union with the EU.[35] In October, Badenoch voted for Johnson's withdrawal agreement.[36]

In the run-up to the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, Badenoch was tipped as a possible contender just two years into her tenure in parliament.[37] Badenoch instead supported the campaign of Michael Gove. In the December 2019 general election, she was re-elected with an increased majority of 27,594 (43.7%) votes.[38][39]

Johnson government

In July 2019, Badenoch was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.[40][41] In February 2020, Badenoch was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Department for International Trade.[42] She has been a member of the Public Accounts Committee since March 2020.[43]

In a government reshuffle in September 2021, Badenoch was promoted to Minister of State for Equalities and appointed Minister of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.[44] Within days of her appointments, the latter title was renamed "Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities".[45][46][47] On 6 July 2022, Badenoch resigned from government, citing Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal, in a joint statement with fellow Ministers Alex Burghart, Neil O'Brien, Lee Rowley and Julia Lopez.[48]

Leadership candidacy

Logo used by Badenoch's leadership bid
Main article: July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election

Following Johnson's resignation, Badenoch launched a bid to succeed him as Conservative Party leader,[49] stating that she wanted to "tell the truth" and that she advocated "strong but limited government".[50] As a candidate, she called the target of net zero carbon emissions "ill-thought through" and said that politicians had become "hooked on the idea of the state fixing the majority of problems".[51] She launched her campaign at an event held on 12 July.[52] At her launch, handwritten signs saying "Men" and "Ladies" were taped to the doors of gender-neutral toilets.[53]

According to The Sunday Times, Badenoch entered the race as "a relatively unknown minister for local government" but "within a week emerged as the insurgent candidate to become Britain’s next prime minister".[54] She was eliminated in the fourth round of voting, as she received the fewest votes of the remaining candidates.[55] The following table shows how many MPs supported Badenoch in each election round:

Date Votes received % Position / Candidates
13 July 2022 40 11.2 4 / 8[56]
14 July 2022 49 13.7 4 / 6[57]
18 July 2022 58 16.2 4 / 5[58]
19 July 2022 59 16.5 4 / 4[55]

Following her elimination from the leadership contest, Badenoch did not endorse another candidate.[59]

Truss government

In September 2022. after Liz Truss became Prime Minister, she appointed Badenoch to her cabinet as Secretary of State for International Trade.[60][61] Following Truss' resignation the following month, Badenoch endorsed Rishi Sunak in the leadership election,[62] stating that he was "the serious, honest leader we need".[63]

Sunak government

On 25 October 2022, Badenoch was retained as International Trade Secretary by Rishi Sunak upon his ascension to the Prime Ministership. She was also granted the additional role of Minister for Women & Equalities.[64]

In a February 2023 cabinet reshuffle, Badenoch was appointed as the first Secretary of State at the newly-created Department for Business and Trade, with continued responsibility for equalities. The new role was effectively an expansion of her portfolio as International Trade Secretary to include the business and investment responsibilities of the now-defunct Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.[4][65]

Political views

Beliefs

Many regard Badenoch as being on the right wing of the Conservative Party.[66] She has personally described herself as being on the "liberal wing" of the Conservative Party[67] who is "not really left-leaning on anything".[68] She has identified philosopher Roger Scruton and economist Thomas Sowell as her influences, citing Sowell’s Basic Economics as an influence.[69] She has also been characterized as a social conservative and 'anti-woke' politician.[70][71][67]

Race relations

Badenoch's portrait as Minister for Equalities and Levelling Up Communities

During a debate in the House of Commons in April 2021, Badenoch criticised the Labour Party's response to a report compiled by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities that had declared Britain was not institutionally racist. Labour had described the report as "cherry-picking of data", while the party's former frontbench MP Dawn Butler claimed the report was "gaslighting on a national scale", describing those who put it together as "racial gatekeepers."[72] Badenoch accused Labour of "wilful misrepresentations" over the report and responded to Butler's comments by stating "It is wrong to accuse those who argue for a different approach as being racism deniers or race traitors. It's even more irresponsible, dangerously so, to call ethnic minority people racial slurs like Uncle Toms, coconuts, house slaves or house negroes for daring to think differently."[73][74]

In a Black History Month debate in the House of Commons in October 2020, she reiterated the government's opposition to primary and secondary schools teaching white privilege and similar "elements of critical race theory" as uncontested facts.[75] ConservativeHome readers voted Badenoch's speech on critical race theory 2020 'speech of the year', in which she said that any school that teaches "elements of political race theory as fact, or which promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law".[76]

During her leadership campaign launch, Badenoch expressed criticism of identity politics in a 2022 article for The Times, arguing that "identity politics is not about tolerance or individual rights, but the very opposite of our crucial and enduring British values."[77]

Colonialism

Regarding the United Kingdom's colonial history, Badenoch has argued that "There were terrible things that happened during the British Empire, there were other good things that happened, and we need to tell both sides of the story".[78]

In leaked WhatsApp messages, Badenoch said "I don't care about colonialism because [I] know what we were doing before colonialism got there" and argued that Europeans "came in and just made a different bunch of winners and losers" on the African continent. She also stated that prior to colonization, "There was never any concept of 'rights,' so [the] people who lost out were old elites not everyday people".[79] In an interview with Sky News, Badenoch became the first government minister to speak Yoruba and explained that while she believed colonialism had an impact, many of the problems facing Nigeria were not down to colonialism but governance.

LGBTQ+ rights

In 2019, Badenoch abstained on a vote to extend same-sex marriage rights to Northern Ireland.[80] In March 2021, Badenoch was encouraged to "consider her position" as an equalities minister by Jayne Ozanne, one of a group of three government LGBT advisers who quit their roles due to the decision by the government not to include transgender conversion therapy in its plans to ban gay conversion therapy, with Ozanne describing a speech by Badenoch on the issue as being "appalling" and the "final straw".[81]

As Minister of State for Equalities, Badenoch opposed plans by the Financial Conduct Authority to allow trans employees to self-identify in the workplace,[82] and opposed gender-neutral toilets in public buildings.[83]

In 2021, Vice News said they had received leaked audio from 2018 in which Badenoch mocked gay marriage, referred to trans women as "men" and used the term transsexual which is considered offensive by some trans people.[84][85]

Comment on millennials

In 2018, Badenoch commented on sexual morality attitudes among millennials:

When I look at a lot of the stuff that you see on social media about how – I think it's a generational thing as well – younger people look at appropriate behaviours and what is a sexual advance, what is sexual harassment and so on; to me, it's actually becoming a lot more puritanical than anything I ever saw in my 20s or in my teens.[86]

Controversies

Hacking of Labour MP's website

In 2018, Badenoch admitted that, a decade earlier, she had hacked into the website of Harriet Harman, who was then Deputy Leader of the Labour Party; Harman accepted Badenoch's apology, but the matter was reported to Action Fraud, the UK's cyber crime reporting centre.[87][88][89]

Tulip Siddiq comments

In 2019, Badenoch was criticised by a number of Labour MPs for suggesting that Tulip Siddiq was "making a point" by delaying her scheduled Caesarean section in order to attend a House of Commons vote on Brexit.[90]

Journalist Nadine White incident

Badenoch published a series of tweets in January 2021 in which she included screenshots of questions sent to her office by HuffPost journalist Nadine White whom she, as a result, accused of "creepy and bizarre behaviour". White subsequently made her Twitter account private, citing the abuse she received.[91] Badenoch's actions were criticised by both the National Union of Journalists and the Council of Europe's Safety of Journalists Platform.[92][93] She was defended by the prime minister's press secretary who commented that it was all a "misunderstanding".[94]

Personal life

She is married to Hamish Badenoch; they have two daughters and a son.[95][96] Hamish works for Deutsche Bank[8][39] and was a Conservative councillor from 2014 to 2018 on Merton Borough Council, representing Wimbledon Village.[97][98] He also unsuccessfully contested Foyle for the Northern Ireland Conservatives at the 2015 general election.[99] Badenoch was a board member of the Charlton Triangle Homes housing association until 2016, and was also a school governor at St Thomas the Apostle College in Southwark, and the Jubilee Primary School.[16][100]

Badenoch describes herself as a cultural Christian and notes that her maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister in Nigeria.[101] Badenoch's father Femi died in February 2022 and she took bereavement leave from her ministerial duties for a brief period.[102]

Notes

  1. ^ As Secretary of State for International Trade until 7 February 2023, when she took on the duties of Business Secretary from Grant Shapps
  2. ^ As Minister for Equalities.
  3. ^ As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2020 to September 2021.

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for Saffron Walden
2017–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
2019–2020 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities
2020–2021 		Succeeded by
Herself
as Minister of State for Equalities
Preceded by Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
2020–2021 		Succeeded by
Preceded byas Minister of State for Regional Growth and Local Government Minister of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
2021 		Succeeded by
Herself
as Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities
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Herself
as Minister of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government 		Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities
2021–2022 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Herself
as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities 		Minister of State for Equalities
2021–2022 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for International Trade
2022–present 		Incumbent
President of the Board of Trade
2022–present
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