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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Walters

Badenoch plotted to ‘take out’ Sunak as prime minister before Labour’s landslide election victory, new book claims

Kemi Badenoch “had no respect” for former Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak and secretly tried to bring him down before the last general election, a new book has claimed.

Ms Badenoch, who succeeded Mr Sunak as Tory leader after the 2024 election, thought he was “rude to her” and wanted to “take him out without being seen to wield the knife”. And, says the book, her disloyal antics contributed to the scale of the Tory election defeat.

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