Kemi Badenoch
Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch is a British Conservative politician. She has served as Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden since 2017. In October 2018, she was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Children and Families by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch is a British Conservative politician. She has served as Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden since the 2017 general election. She was born in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin. Her childhood included time living in the United States and Lagos, Nigeria. She studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex. She then worked as a systems analyst at RBS, before pursuing a career in consultancy and financial services, working as an associate director of private bank Coutts and later as a director at The Spectator. In October 2018, she was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Children and Families by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
She supported Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum. She voted against a withdrawal agreement and against a customs union with the EU on March 27, 2018. In April 2018 she confessed to hacking into a Labour MP’s website in 2008. The Labour MP in question was Harriet Harman, who was then Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. She accepted an apology, but was reported to the UK’s cyber crime reporting centre. In July 2019, Badench was appointed to the parliamentary Justice Select Committee. She supports a repeal of the ban on fox hunting.
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