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Kemi Badenoch
MP
Vice Chairman of the
Conservative Party for Candidates
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 January 2018
LeaderTheresa May
Member of Parliament
for Saffron Walden
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded bySir Alan Haselhurst
Majority24,966 (41.0%)
Member of the London Assembly
as the 4th Additional Member[1]
In office
5 May 2016 – 8 June 2017
Preceded byGareth Bacon
Succeeded bySusan Hall
Member of the London Assembly
as the 3rd Additional Member[2]
In office
16 September 2015 – 5 May 2016
Preceded byVictoria Borwick
Succeeded byShaun Bailey
Personal details
Born
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke

January 1980 (age 44)
Wimbledon, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Hamish Badenoch
​
(m. 2012)​
Children2
ResidenceWimbledon, London
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
Birkbeck, University of London
Websitehttp://kemibadenoch.org.uk

Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch (née Adegoke; born January 1980)[3][4][5] is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden. Adegoke was born in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin. Her childhood was spent in Lagos, Nigeria and the United States. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of sixteen. After studying Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, she worked as a software engineer at Logica. Adegoke went on to work at RBS as a systems analyst before working as an associate director at Coutts and later as a director at The Spectator magazine.

In 2012, Badenoch unsuccessfully contested a seat at the London Assembly. Three years later, Badenoch was selected as a London Assembly member after Suella Braverman and Victoria Borwick declined their seats after being elected as MPs at the 2015 general election. She supported Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum. Badenoch was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden on 8 June 2017.

Early life

Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born in Wimbledon, London to Femi and Feyi Adegoke.[6][7] Her father is a GP and her mother is a professor of physiology.[8] Adegoke's childhood included time living in the United States (where her mother lectured) and Lagos, Nigeria.[9] She returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 16.[10]

Adegoke studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex.[11][12] She initially worked within the IT sector first as a software engineer at Logica (later CGI Group). While working there she studied part-time at Birkbeck, University of London and obtained a Law degree in 2009.[8]

Adegoke then worked as a systems analyst at RBS,[13] before pursuing a career in consultancy and financial services, working as an associate director of private bank and wealth manager Coutts and later a director at the conservative magazine The Spectator.[12]

Political career

Adegoke joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at the age of 25.[14][15] In 2010 she contested the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency against Labour's Tessa Jowell and came third behind Jowell, and Jonathan Mitchell (the Liberal Democrat candidate).[16]

Two years later, Adegoke stood for the Conservatives in the London Assembly election where she was placed fifth on the London-wide list.[17] The election saw the Conservatives win only three seats from the London-wide list, so Adegoke was not elected.[18] Three years later, in the 2015 general election, Victoria Borwick was elected to the House of Commons[19] and subsequently resigned her seat on the London Assembly. The fourth placed candidate on the list, Suella Fernandes, had also been elected to the House of Commons[20] and declined to fill the vacancy. Badenoch (following her marriage in 2012) was therefore declared to be the new Assembly Member.[2] She went on to retain her seat in the Assembly in the 2016 election.[1] Badenoch supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.[9] Badenoch supports a repeal of the ban on fox hunting.[21]

Badenoch was elected as MP for the Saffron Walden constituency in the 2017 general election with 37,629 votes and a majority of a 24,966 (41.0%).[9][22] She had also made the shortlist to be the Conservative Party candidate in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.[23] In her maiden speech on the 19 July, she described the vote for Brexit as "the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom" and cited her personal heroes as the Conservative politicians Winston Churchill, Airey Neave, and Margaret Thatcher.[7] In the same month, Badenoch was selected to join the 1922 Executive Committee.[24] In September, she was appointed to the parliamentary Justice Select Committee.[25] The following month, Badenoch was listed at Number 96 on Conservative political commentator Iain Dale's "100 most influential on the Right 2017".[26]

She was appointed as the Conservative Party's Vice Chair for Candidates in January 2018.[27]

In April 2018, The Mail on Sunday obtained a video of an interview that Badenoch did with Core Politics, where she confessed to hacking into the website of a Labour MP in 2008.[28][29] The MP in question was Harriet Harman, who was then Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Harman accepted Badenoch's apology, but the matter has been reported to Action Fraud, the UK's cyber crime reporting centre.[30][31]

Personal life

Kemi is married to Hamish Badenoch and they have one daughter and one son.[32] Hamish works for Deutsche Bank[9] and was a Conservative councillor on the Merton London Borough Council.[33] She was a board member of the Charlton Triangle Homes housing association till her retirement in 2016, and was also previously a school governor at St Thomas the Apostle College in Southwark, and the Jubilee Primary School (both in London).[13][34]

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