5 days Ago By The Straits Times
Emma Jacobs Whatever the truth of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's rudeness, it did not deter colleagues from voting her in. Whether she will stay is another matter. Ms Kemi Badenoch is rude.
That’s not my description. I have never spoken to the new leader of the UK Conservative party. It is a characterisation attributed to both her detractors and supporters.
On a television show before the party’s leadership election, former Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns said Ms Badenoch “came across as rude, like a school ma’am disciplining school children” and urged her to have “more respect”. Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.90 $9.
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