‘I won’t be dancing in the streets’: views on Tories’ first black leader

Kemi Badenoch spars with Keir Starmer at PMQs in the House of Commons. Photograph: House of Commons/Reuters

Kemi Badenoch’s election as Conservative party leader may have been somewhat eclipsed by the US election, but it nonetheless represents a political milestone. Her positioning as a “culture warrior” is, to some, proof not of a changing Conservative party but one with a new face for old instincts.

Here, the Guardian asks black and minority ethnic campaigners, as well as public and political figures, what it means for the Tories to have a black leader.