How Kemi Badenoch Became Leader of the UK Conservative Party Ms. Badenoch’s ascent is partly the result of a deliberate diversifying of the party under David Cameron in the 2000s. In her politics, she exemplifies its more recent rightward turn.

Kemi Badenoch is the new Leader of the Conservative Party The leadership election was set-off by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to resign as party leader.

Kemi Badenoch, New Leader of the U.K.’s Tories, Vows to Make the Party More Conservative Ms. Badenoch is expected to move the party, now in the opposition, further to the right.