Kemi's Column: July Monday, 14 July, 2025 The beginning of this month marked one year since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. Over this year I’ve heard from countless residents here in North West Essex via email and on the doorstep, wondering: where is the “change” Labour promised? Instead of delivering, this government has brought us U‑turn after U‑turn, higher taxes, higher inflation, higher debt and greater uncertainty. Illegal... Articles
Kemi Badenoch Speech on Welfare delivered at the Centre for Social Justice 10th July 2025 We are becoming a welfare state, with an economy attached. 28 million people in Britain are now working to pay the wages and benefits of 28 million others. The... Opinions
Kemi Badenoch: Only the Conservatives will do what’s needed on welfare 8th July 2025 Neither Labour nor Reform UK can be trusted to deliver the reforms we so badly need The UK is in a welfare crisis. About 23 per cent of the working-age... Opinions
KEMI BADENOCH: Even my Leftie pals can't believe the mess Labour has got us in... we have Corbyn's party with Keir Starmer at the helm 4th July 2025 My Left-leaning, champagne-socialist friends were so excited at the prospect of a Labour government last year. ‘Of course we want you to win, Kemi,’ they told... Opinions
Kemi Badenoch MP visits Stansted Windmill to celebrate restoration progress 27th June 2025 Kemi Badenoch, MP for North West Essex, visited Stansted Windmill recently to see first-hand the restoration work taking place to preserve one of the area’s... Local News
Kemi Badenoch MP visits Carver Barracks for Armed Forces Week 27th June 2025 Kemi Badenoch, MP for North West Essex, visited Carver Barracks to mark Armed Forces Week and to meet soldiers from the Royal Engineers’ Explosive Ordnance... Articles
Kemi Badenoch: Iran is a direct threat to Britain — Israel’s fight is ours too 21st June 2025 Too many politicians treat the world like a student union. Abstract, simplistic and completely disconnected from reality. The world is not a debating club. It... Opinions
Kemi Badenoch: Reform is Corbynism with a flag: the Tories stand for economic freedom 14th June 2025 Growth comes from embracing the private sector. We can’t tax ourselves to prosperity I confess I shudder every time I hear that word. Yet politicians from Keir... Opinions
Kemi Badenoch: Labour’s spending review shows how unserious they are 11th June 2025 Rachel Reeves’s fantasy economics highlight a hard truth we’ve grown reluctant to admit — the government can’t do everything Listening to Rachel Reeves, you’d... Opinions
KEMI BADENOCH: A simple way to deter migrants? Make them wait for ten years before they can claim any benefits 7th June 2025 The issue of immigration is a simple one for the Conservative Party: we need to crack down on it in every form, both legal and illegal. For me, this is about... Opinions