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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Pol Allingham

Badenoch stands by Stanford University claims as Labour urge her to ‘come clean’

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.

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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