Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024
What are the laws for equal pay? Labour expected to grant equal pay rights for ethnic minorities Labour also pledged to enact protections against “dual discrimination”, in which people face prejudice due to a combination of protected characteristics Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2024
Kemi Badenoch tops Tory member poll again The prime minister remains second from bottom Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2024
‘It’s all a bit marginal’: claims of Brexit trade perks don’t add up, say firms A business department report trumpeting the four-year benefits of leaving the EU does not match the reality faced by companies The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024
Dougie Smith: a mysterious backroom Tory fixer feared by MPs The man who reportedly once organised sex parties for the wealthy is alleged to be involved in a plot to replace Rishi Sunak The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024
‘Everyone’s second preference’: could James Cleverly be the next Tory leader? The right wing of the party is talking up Kemi Badenoch. But the gaffe-prone home secretary might have the last laugh The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024
OPINION - Brexit four years on: going badly, and people are starting to notice My favourite thing about cricket is the statistics. Nothing fills me with greater joy than when a commentator breathlessly reveals something like 'the batsmen have just recorded the highest-ever fifth-wicket partnership for England at Edgbaston against Sri Lanka.' You don't say? Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2024
Rish! puts himself through his hardest ordeal yet – ITV’s This Morning sofa The PM tried to look like a man at home with spontaneity, rather than a work experience teenager who had wandered in The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024
OPINION - Kemi Badenoch may be part of the 'Evil Plotters' WhatsApp group but she has an audacious plan In her maiden Commons speech in 2017, Kemi Badenoch, quoting Woody Allen, said that democracy was like sex: “If it’s not messy, you’re not doing it right”. Seven years on, Conservative politics could hardly be messier. Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2024
Beleaguered Rishi Sunak on a wing and a prayer – and now a fasting regime PM battling to salvage his party from predicted electoral obliteration but Tories carry on plumbing the depths The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024
Kemi Badenoch is member of ‘Evil Plotters’ Tory WhatsApp group Exclusive: Business secretary who has told party rebels to stop ‘stirring’ and back PM is in group along with Michael Gove The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024
‘Difficulties’ in Post Office governance led me to sack chairman, says Badenoch The Business Secretary would not be drawn on whether there will be other departures from the board of directors Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024
UK Post Office Chief Sacked As Firm Reels From IT Scandal UK Business Minister Kemi Badenoch on Sunday said she had sacked the chairman of the Post Office amid tensions over the scandal of hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft due to faulty accounting software. International Business Times · Jan 28, 2024
Minister hints at wider shake-up of Post Office after departure of chair Kemi Badenoch says issues at Post Office go beyond Horizon scandal, after Harry Staunton removed The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024 Badenoch hits out at Tory plotters for seeking to remove Sunak Business secretary says it would be wrong to replace Sunak as party leader on the basis of poor polling
The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024 UK ditches post-Brexit Canada trade talks; Vodafone and Three UK merger under investigation – as it happened Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Canada says UK was unwilling to give access to agricultural products
Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2024 Is Rishi Sunak facing a potential leadership contest and who could replace him? Tory MPs call for PM to quit A former Tory minister reportedly reveals more discontent about the embattled PM’s leadership, raising the spectre of a future no-confidence vote
The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024 ‘Gender ideology’ is all around us – but it’s not what the Tories say it is The government’s new gender guidance for schools is alarming, and so is the deeply conservative terminology embedded in it, says writer and sociology lecturer Finn Mackay
The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024 Post Office IT scandal: minister asks Fujitsu for talks on payouts for victims Kemi Badenoch’s letter on share of compensation comes after $1bn wiped off Fujitsu’s value
The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2024 Rishi Sunak in last-ditch bid to win over Tory MPs on his Rwanda bill Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson said to be ready to back hardliners – as right-wingers warn PM he could face defeat
The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2023 Kemi Badenoch voted Tories’ favourite minister of the year Survey puts Badenoch narrowly ahead of Suella Braverman and Penny Mordaunt in race to succeed Rishi Sunak
The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2023 Heavy election defeat could lead to Tory lurch to right, analysis shows With another two-point slip from current polling, about 40% of Tory MPs would come from populist right
The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2023 Ex-NatWest chief’s name axed from ‘Rose review’ into female-led firms Exclusive: government to rebrand scheme amid fallout from Farage scandal that cost Alison Rose her job
The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2023 Schools in England ‘face legal risks if they follow new transgender guidance’ School leaders fear ministerial advice on pupil transitioning could spark court action
The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2023 What does the trans guidance for England’s schools say? How to make sense of some of the key passages from long-delayed guidance