Kemi Badenoch Becomes New Leader of the U.K. Conservatives, the First Black Woman to Head a Major British party
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power.
The first Black woman to lead a major British political party, Badenoch (pronounced BADE-enock) defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the right-of-center Conservatives.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]She got 53,806 votes in the online and postal ballot of party members, to Jenrick’s 41,388.
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