Badenoch Announces Tory Leadership Bid as Braverman Pulls Out

Published on July 29, 2024

Shadow housing secretary Kemi Badenoch launched her bid for the Tory leadership on Monday, while former Home Secretary Suella Braverman revealed she had chosen not to run. Ms. Badenoch joins Dame Priti Patel, Mel Stride, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, and Tom Tugendhat in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, with nominations for the position due to close at 2:30 p.m. on Monday. In a piece in The Times of London, Ms. Badenoch said the Tories deserved to lose the last election because the party was “unsure of who we were, what we were for and how we could build a new country.”...

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