Everything you need to know about Kemi Badenoch including controversies about transgender rights, Black History Month and Net Zero
So, who is the woman second in the running to become our next Prime Minister - and more to the point, what do we need to know about her?Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch has been the MP for Saffron Walden for five years - re-elected in 2019.She has been Minister for Local Government, Faith and Communities at the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Equalities, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education.
Aged 16, she worked at McDonald's while putting herself through two degrees. Speaking to The Times, she said: 'You would have people from college who would turn up and laugh at me because I was there with my hat and my badge and I didn’t have any stars. But it was what I had to do. I didn’t have any money. My parents weren’t here and I was living with family friends. So I had a roof over my head, but I needed to earn to live.
She addeed: 'Even when, you know, so, people hear about, you know like the whole bathroom thing, it’s actually more of an American thing but they have a similar problem, that, right so now it’s not just about being free to marry who you want, you now want to have men using women’s bathrooms.' She added: 'There will also be cases where a line is crossed, where someone is actively seeking to change another's sexual orientation. The government will be exercising great care when considering what constitutes conversion therapy, what does not and therefore how the government should intervene.'
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