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Pol Allingham

Badenoch insists she received Stanford offer after report cast doubt on claim

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was visiting Redhill in Surrey on Monday (Aaron Chown/PA) - (PA Wire)

Kemi Badenoch has insisted she was offered a place to study medicine at Stanford University but said she does not now have the relevant papers, after a report cast doubt on the claim.

The Conservative Party leader previously said that at the age of 16 she was offered a place and partial scholarship to study medicine, sometimes describing it as pre-med, at the highly competitive California university.

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