"How do you know what an authoritative source is when everyone is trying to make the news rather than report the news? Thats the new thing it our age. A lot of media doesnt want to observe and report. It wants to influence. It wants to be on the pitch rather than reporting."
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch is a British politician who has been serving as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since November 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex, previously Saffron Walden, in 2017.
"[Predators exploitation of loopholes] We see it with men exposing themselves in bathrooms. We see it with people trying to access single-sex spaces such as womens prisons when they have been convicted for violence against women, and their victims are being forced to refer to them with female pronouns. That is not right. So we have to make sure that we can sweep all that away and when we do, life will get better for transgender people."
"The middle-class now has changed. It has become a lot more bureaucratic and we are producing more and more people from universities who are going into a bureaucratic job rather than a genuine producing job where youre adding value. And that, I think, is why the growth is reducing at the same time as were facing increased competition from other countries that are not spending a lot of time on bureaucracy. The EU is the classing of this genre; Its all about pumping out regulation."
"Parliament needs to be able to decide who comes into the country, for how long, and who needs to leave, and that does include travel bans.>br />On a country-specific basis its much tougher, its often more vague. But I think there are scenarios where that is viable. That doesnt mean that I agree with what Donald Trump has done, I havent actually seen the list of countries that he’s banned people from. Im much more focused on (...) what’s happening here."
"[T]hey are a flash in the pan if I have anything to do with it. We cannot have people running our country who lie and lie and lie so easily, deceive their colleagues and people around them. We need to have honest people and that is what I am doing."
"I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls. A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he cant see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end. Tennant is one of Labours celebrity supporters. This is an early example of what life will be like if they win."
"He is catching arrows rather than stopping the archer."