About
Kemi Badenoch has led the Conservative Party since November 2024, becoming the first Black leader of a major UK party. A software engineer before politics, she entered Parliament in 2017 and served as Business and Trade Secretary and minister for women and equalities.
Her headline economic pledge is abolishing stamp duty on main homes, inside a “golden economic rule” that splits savings between deficit and tax cuts. From July 2026 she has also made leaving the ECHR binding on Conservative candidates, and her party dismissed Burnham-linked property tax plans outright.
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