Kemi Badenoch

Official portrait, 2022
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Assumed office
8 July 2024
LeaderRishi Sunak
Preceded byAngela Rayner
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
In office
7 February 2023 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byGrant Shapps[a]
Succeeded byJonathan Reynolds
President of the Board of Trade
In office
6 September 2022 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byAnne-Marie Trevelyan
Succeeded byJonathan Reynolds
Minister for Women and Equalities
In office
25 October 2022 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byNadhim Zahawi[b]
Succeeded byBridget Phillipson
Secretary of State for International Trade
In office
6 September 2022 – 7 February 2023
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byAnne-Marie Trevelyan
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Junior ministerial offices
Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities
In office
16 September 2021 – 6 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byLuke Hall
Succeeded byPaul Scully
Minister of State for Equalities[c]
In office
14 February 2020 – 6 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Baroness Williams of Trafford
Succeeded byAmanda Solloway
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
In office
13 February 2020 – 16 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySimon Clarke
Succeeded byHelen Whately
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
In office
27 July 2019 – 13 February 2020[d]
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byNadhim Zahawi
Succeeded byVicky Ford
Member of Parliament
for North West Essex
Saffron Walden (2017–2024)
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded byAlan Haselhurst
Majority2,610 (4.8%)
Member of the London Assembly
as the 4th Additional Member
In office
5 May 2016 – 8 June 2017
Preceded byGareth Bacon
Succeeded bySusan Hall
Member of the London Assembly
as the 9th Additional Member
In office
16 September 2015 – 5 May 2016
Preceded byVictoria Borwick
Succeeded byShaun Bailey
Personal details
Born
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke

(1980-01-02) 2 January 1980 (age 44)
Wimbledon, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Hamish Badenoch
(m. 2012)
Children3
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • software engineer
  • consultant
  • banker
Websitekemibadenoch.org.uk

Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch (/ˈbdnɒk/ BAYD-nok; née Adegoke; born 1980) is a British politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since 2017. She is a member of the Conservative Party. She was the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade from 2022 until 2024. She also was the Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022 to 2024.

She has served in Boris Johnson's second government as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities at the Government Equalities Office from 2020 to 2022.

Badenoch was born in Wimbledon, London. Her parents are of Nigerian origin. Her childhood was spent in part in the Nigerian capital Lagos and the United States. She returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 16. She is married to Hamish Badenoch. The couple have three children.[1]

In July 2022, Badenoch announced her candidacy for Leader of the Conservative Party in the 2022 leadership election.[2] She was eliminated in the fourth round of voting on 19 July 2022.[3]

Notes

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  1. As Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
  2. As Minister for Equalities.
  3. As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2020 to September 2021.
  4. Michelle Donelan was appointed on 4 September 2019 as an additional Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families to cover the portfolio during Badenoch's maternity leave.

References

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  1. Murphy, Joe (27 February 2018). "Kemi Badenoch: New vice-chairman of the Conservatives talks about her fight to recruit a more diverse range of MPs". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  2. Mikhailova, Anna (8 July 2022). "Now Kemi Badenoch launches a leadership campaign in tomorrow's Times." Twitter. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  3. "Tory leadership race live: Kemi Badenoch eliminated as Rishi Sunak tops poll of MPs". The Guardian. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

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