Who is Kemi Badenoch, the first Black woman to lead Britain’s Conservative Party?

Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken and she is the one to fix it. The new leader of Britain’s right-of-center Conservative Party was born Olukemi Adegoke in London in 1980 to  Nigerian parents. She has said that her childhood experience of Nigeria’s economic and social upheavals means she doesn’t take Britain’s prosperity and stability for granted. A computer systems engineer, she was elected to Parliament in 2017 and served in a series of government jobs before the Conservatives were ousted from power in July. Now she aims to lead the party to victory in the next election, due by 2029