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Black, a woman, and Conservative.
Kemi Badenoch: I’m black but I’m also a woman, a mum and an MP
Though she admits Brexit will be “tough initially”, she still considers leaving the EU the right decision. What if we get no deal? “My husband’s nervous. If companies think: ‘We don’t want to be here’ it will impact a lot of people. But I don’t think it will get to that. People talk about a divorce bill. You can’t be married to 27 people. It wasn’t a marriage — it was a business partnership that we have decided isn’t quite working for us. Will it be tough? All change is tough.”
She has accused Labour of thinking “it owns minorities” and believing race trumps all: “It’s: ‘You’re black, this is what you care about’. But identity is multi-faceted. I’m black but I’m also a woman, a Mum. They talk about a ‘black community’ — there’s nothing really like that. People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.” |
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