Mrs Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch has announced her candidacy in the Conservative Party's leadership election for the position of British Prime Minister. Mrs Badenoch who has served as Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden since 2017 and Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities and Minister of Equalities between 2021 and 2022 resigned as minister following the resignation announcement of Boris Johnson.
Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch née Adegoke, was born in 1980 in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin. She spent her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria, attended secondary school at the International School, Unilag and thereafter returned to the UK at the age of 16 where she studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex. Mrs Badenoch joined the Conservative Party at the age of 25 and her first elected political position was in 2017.
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On 12 July 2022, Mrs Badenoch announced her bid for the UK’s Prime Ministerial position in an article published in The Times newspaper, 42-year-old Badenoch and MP for Saffron Walden called for change, saying the British public was “exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric”. I'm putting myself forward in this leadership election because I want to tell the truth,” she said. “It’s the truth that will set us free.
Mrs Badenoch is in the race to become the next British Prime Minister alongside Rishi Sunak, former chancellor; Sajid Javid, former health secretary; Ben Wallace, defence secretary; and Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary, among several others. Her declaration has attracted significant measure of public endorsement.
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