The Latest Breaking News from Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives have attracted big-money donors even as they sink in the polls behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, official figures show

‘The Chancellor is not going to apologise for a series of measures she took to stabilise the nation’s finances when we came into office’ - Ed Miliband

Tory leader says there are ‘more insidious’ issues but she asks people who attend her surgery to remove face coverings

The Conservative Party leader also blasted first-cousin marriages and sharia courts as an ‘insidious’ barrier to cultural integration

Businessman blames exhaustion for his error of judgement

NEWS ANALYSIS: Party insiders want to lean into the Tory leader’s forthright personality, and ‘let Kemi be Kemi’ as they try to tackle the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform. Kate Devlin and David Maddox report

On 6 June 2025, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called Britain's asylum system 'broken' and said the UK is being 'mugged' by unchecked migration. She proposed tougher laws, including possible ECHR reforms and third-country processing, reigniting the national immigration debate ahead of elections.

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to boost defence spending to 2.7 per cent of GDP by 2027, as Nato allies push for ‘dramatic increase’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Zia Yusuf is a casualty of Reform’s inability to raise a big enough election war chest, reports David Maddox