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Kemi Badenoch of Nigerian descent joins race to become UK prime minister
Kemi Badenoch, former UK equalities minister, has launched a bid to become the country’s next prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party.
Boris Johnson had resigned as UK prime minister on July 7, following numerous calls for his resignation over loss of confidence in his style of governance. Several ministers also resigned their positions.
Johnson had, however, said he intends to stay on as prime minister until a successor is chosen.
Confirming her candidacy in an article in the Times, Badenoch said she wanted a “limited government focused on the essentials”.
The 42-year-old, who was among ministers that resigned, said she would lower taxes, but also have a “tight spending discipline”.
“Without change the Conservative Party, Britain and the western world will continue to drift. Aggressive and assertive rivals will outpace us economically and outmanoeuvre us internationally,” she wrote.
“It won’t be enough just to offer better management of relative decline. We need the discipline to transform government into an effective and streamlined machine for delivery, not a piggy bank for pressure groups.”
According to Badenoch, she is contesting because she wants “to tell the truth”.
“It’s the truth that will set us free,” she added.
She also said “people are exhausted by platitudes and empty rhetoric”, adding that an “intellectual grasp of what is required to run the country” is missing.
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