On Saturday, Kemi Badenoch became the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK - and the sixth Tory leader in less than eight and a half years. A lengthy leadership contest began after Rishi Sunak stood down in the wake of the election ...

New Tory leader had Keir Starmer on the ropes about the incoming US president. Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through.

Kemi Badenoch attended her first PMQs as leader of the Conservative Party today. It didn’t go well. In one of the first questions put to the prime minister, the Labour MP Jacob Collier criticised Badenoch’s widely reported comments about maternity pay. During the Tory leadership election, she suggested that maternity pay in the UK is ‘excessive’.

Kemi Badenoch said she will tell "hard truths" to both the country and her party as she began her first full day as Conservative leader. In her first interview since winning the Tory leadership election, Badenoch said the UK is getting poorer and older, and is being "outcompeted" by other countries.

Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the Conservative Party, defeating Robert Jenrick in the final round of voting.Badenoch, who was raised in Nigeria, is the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK and takes over a Conservative Party reeling from its worst ever election defeat.

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