Former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has become the latest to throw her hat in the ring for the UK’s premiership following Boris Johnson’s resignation.
The 42-year-old MP for Saffron Walden launched her bid with an opinion article published in The Times of London on Saturday, painting a “smart and nimble centre-right vision” of a “strong but limited government focused on the essentials.”
Badenoch is one of the 59 government ministers and ministerial aides who quit this week over Johnson’s handling of the Chris Pincher scandal, triggering Johnson’s resignation and a Conservative Party leadership race.
Saying Johnson is “a symptom of the problems we face” rather than the cause of them, Badenoch criticised politicians for “promising too much and trying to solve every problem,” saying they “disappoint and drive disillusion” rather than “reassure and inspire.”…