Kemi Badenoch accused Keir Starmer of using Brianna Ghey’s murder as an opportunity for “political point-scoring”. (Aaron Chown/Getty) Kemi Badenoch has accused Labour of “weaponising” the murder of Brianna Ghey after Keir Starmer called out Rishi Sunak during Prime Minister’s Questions for making a jibe about trans people while her mother Esther was present in
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Kemi Badenoch has unveiled the new list of approved countires. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Trans foreign nationals applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) after moving to Britain from certain countries will now have to provide medical reports, after some nations changed their laws – meaning their legislation is no longer seen to be as “rigorous”
Kemi Badenoch speaks during Britain’s Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate on 17 July. (ITV via Getty/ Jonathan Hordle) Liz Truss “empowered” Kemi Badenoch to push back against trans rights during her time in government, the former equalities minister has claimed. Writing in The Sunday Times on Sunday (31 July), Badenoch detailed how she sought to hear
Tom Tugendhat has become the latest leadership hopeful to be voted out. (Jonathan Hordle / ITV via Getty Images) Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt have continued their lead in the Conservative Party leadership contest as Tom Tugendhat is knocked out of the race to replace prime minister Boris Johnson. After the third round of voting
Boris Johnson. (Christopher Furlong/WPA Pool /Getty) MPs from across the UK have insisted that any ban on conversion therapy must also include trans people. During a debate in Westminster Hall on Monday evening (8 March), MPs urged the government to ban the harmful, pseudoscientific practice. The debate, triggered by a petition to government signed by
Kemi Badenoch, minister for equalities and Samuel Kasumu. (Chris McAndrew/Official portrait of Kemi Badenoch/Twitter) A government advisor on ethnic minorities tried to quit after Conservative equalities minister Kemi Badenoch publicly lambasted a young journalist for asking a question. Samuel Kasumu, a senior advisor to Boris Johnson, sent a letter of resignation to the prime minister
Kemi Badenoch, minister for equalities and Saffron Walden MP. (Chris McAndrew/Official portrait of Kemi Badenoch) LGBT+ advocates are “alarmed” by the revelation that Conservative equalities minister Kemi Badenoch met with anti-trans hate group LGB Alliance last summer. The under-fire Tory MP had an “introductory meeting” with the LGB Alliance on 13 July, 2020, according to
Liz Truss leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on February 13, 2020.(TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty) The Conservative minister for women and equalities, Liz Truss, has been accused by Liberal Democrat peer baroness Liz Barker of hiding details of meetings she had about the Gender Recognition Act. Baroness Barker, who is the LGBT+ spokesperson in
Kemi Badenoch, junior minister for equalities and Saffron Walden MP. (Chris McAndrew/Official portrait of Kemi Badenoch) Boris Johnson’s new junior minister for equalities, Kemi Badenoch, abstained on the extension of same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland. Badenoch has also criticised young people for having a “puritanical” approach to sexual harassment. Johnson handed Badenoch, 40, the role