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Al Jazeera
Politics
Anealla Safdar

‘Hugely significant’: Who’s in the race to become UK Conservatives leader?

From left: Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly are competing to lead the opposition Conservative Party [Reuters]

London, United Kingdom – An outspoken 44-year-old who counts Margaret Thatcher as her hero, an ex-immigration minister who quit after claiming the controversial Rwanda scheme did not go “far enough”, a former soldier who jokes that he “invaded a country” when he served in Iraq, and a gaffe-prone Brexiteer who made a bad-taste remark about a date rape drug,

In that relative order, Conservative politicians Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly are vying in the United Kingdom for what has been dubbed the worst job in politics: leader of the opposition.

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