
KEMI Badenoch, former UK equalities minister and current Tory MP has announced she is running for Prime Minister, while Tory MP Steve Baker has announced he is dropping his own bid.
In an op-ed for The Times, Badenoch stated that “people are exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric”. She continued to state that she would be arguing for a “strong but limited government”, “lower taxes”, and “tight spending discipline”.