Five candidates are in the running to take over from Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party. Dame Priti Patel earlier became the first would-be leader to be knocked out of the contest in a ballot of Tory MPs. The MPs will next week whittle down the remaining candidates from five to four, who will then make their pitch to members at the party’s conference in Birmingham.
In a series of further ballots, the MPs will then narrow the field to a final two contenders, with party members then choosing the winner. Born in London and raised in Nigeria, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke became the Tory MP for Saffron Walden in 2017 under her married name Badenoch.
Known for her robust views and no-nonsense style, her political heroine growing up in Nigeria was Margaret Thatcher, according to Blue Ambition, a new biography by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft. She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to study for her A-levels before gaining a master’s degree in computer systems engineering from Sussex University.
She became more Conservative partly as “a reaction to the very spoiled, entitled, privileged, metropolitan elite-in-training at university,” she told a Spectator podcast. Before entering politics, the 44-year-old mother of three worked in banking and IT.n She held a series of ministerial jobs under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, who promoted her to business secretary.
Source: BBC
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