Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch is a British politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since 2017.
A member of the Conservative Party, she has served in Boris Johnson’s second government as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities at the Government Equalities Office since 2020.
The former junior education minister announced her bid for leadership in the Times where she condemned in her words “platitudes and empty rhetoric” while promising to downsize government and lower taxes while being completely committed to Brexit. She is also focusing on battling against some social issues such as identity politics and ‘social justice’ revolving around race and culture – something she regularly commentates on.
Who is Kemi Badenoch’s mother Feyi Adegoke?
Mrs. Badenoch was born in Wimbledon, southwest London, to Femi and Feyi Adegoke. Her father was a GP and her mother a professor of physiology. During her childhood, she lived in America, where her mother lectured, and in Lagos in Nigeria
