How one woman wants to put Britain’s right-wing Conservatives back in the lead

And once again a woman is allowed to clean up the British Conservatives.

As well as Margaret Thatcher after the double defeat of Edward Heath in 1975, Theresa May after David Cameron’s Brexit debacle in 2016 or Liz Truss after Boris Johnson’s resignation in 2022, will be with Kemi Badenoch a bossin von Rishi Sunak take over. Under the former prime minister, the conservative party won the parliamentary elections in July the worst result inserted into the story.

The face of Kemi Badenoch, former economics and women’s ministerdidn’t reveal anything when she and her opponent met on Saturday morning at 11 a.m Robert Jenrickthe former immigration minister, entered the Conservative conference room in central London.

The result had been announced to the two candidates minutes earlier and speaker Bob Blackmann, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee, immediately let the room know: 53,806 votes had for Kemi Badenoch, 41.388 voted for Robert Jenrick.

Glass ceiling shattered

“Isn’t it great,” said Bob Blackman when he invited the new party leader onto the stage, “that we have one another female manager “He couldn’t resist taking a swipe at the Labor Party; the current government party has not yet appointed a party leader.

Bob Blackman added: “One more Glass ceiling shattered.The 44-year-old with Nigerian roots, who has prevailed against five candidates in the past four months, will be the Conservatives first black woman lead.

A point that she herself probably doesn’t emphasize often. Kemi Badenoch is not a fan of identity politics, divides with their opinions – similar to their political ones Model Margaret Thatcher – and has thus established herself as a darling of the modern right wing of the Tories, especially during her time as Minister for Women. She did then mandatory single-sex toilets introduced in restaurants or shopping centers and clear against Self-identification of gender.

Opinions divided

They also have the current leadership competition controversial statements always overshadowed. In an interview with Times Radio she explained in September, the state waiting allowance “would go too far”. (For perspective: In England, young mothers receive 90 percent of their salary for six weeks and then the equivalent for 33 weeks 219.09 euros.) But Badenoch said that tax money was being taken from working people to finance another group „excessive“. She later backtracked, saying she was misunderstood.

A few weeks later, she declared on the sidelines of the Tory conference that ten percent of the officials are so bad that they to prison belong. She left this statement as it was – despite criticism from the officials.

Her next task, the new Tory leader said in her inaugural speech on Saturday, would be hard and at the same time simple: you have to do the current one Labor government to account pull.

Gain power

To do this, she will now look for the right comrades-in-arms – a difficult undertaking in a current unusual situation divided conservative party.

Kemi Badenoch admits that they let the standard slide and made mistakes. The Tories would have last “Preached on the right, but ruled on the left” and would have to stop “acting like Labor” to win back power. She wants to change all of that and find her way back to the old conservative values. And that leads to the next point: the party must find itself again prepare to govern. A truly mammoth task.

After the last big one Tory defeat in 1997 it took 13 years and four heads of government until the Conservatives were able to take over as Prime Minister again.