Kemi Badenoch takes over from Rishi Sunak as new Conservative leader

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Kemi Badenoch takes over from Rishi Sunak as new Conservative leader
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Tory leadership: Badenoch defeated Robert Jenrick with 53,806 votes to 41,388

as leader of the opposition after winning 53,806 votes against 41,388 for Mr Jenrick, in a result announced by the party on Saturday morning.Georgia’s ‘fear zones’ – EU monitors and local volunteers keep watch near Russian-occupied areasMs Badenoch described the party as a “family” and said that it is “much more to me than a membership organisation”.

A YouGov poll published ahead of the result found four-in-10 voters had an unfavourable view of Ms Badenoch, including 29 per cent of Conservative voters, while Britons were more likely to thinkTories shout ‘we told you so’ after Rachel Reeves’ tax-and-spend Labour budgetPro-Israel bot network suspected of targeting Irish troops in Lebanon

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