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Kemi Badenoch One year has been completed since taking charge as conservative Party Leader on Sunday, November 2.
Here, the PA news agency sets out a brief timeline of Mrs Badenoch’s leadership of the Tories.
– November 2024
Mrs Badenoch wins Conservative leadership competition to be successful Rishi Sunak After the party’s defeat in the general elections.
He defeated five other senior Conservatives in the contest: Sir James Cleverley, Dame Priti Patel, Sir Mel Stride, Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat.
All of them have since taken up positions in his shadow ministerial team.
– December 2024
Mrs Badenoch debated with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and claimed her party’s online membership counter was providing an incorrect number and ticking automatically.
The reform leader threatened legal action, but it did not happen.
– January 2025
The Conservative leader began setting out his stall for the party with a speech to ring in the new year.
In it he criticized the Conservatives’ failed promises to reduce immigration and the decision to push through Brexit without a plan. She stressed to the media that she would not make policy announcements without thinking, but would gradually build a new political platform through discussions with Tory members.
The same month, Mrs Badenoch was accused of jumping on the “bandwagon” after criticizing the government for not launching an investigation into grooming gangs in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Home Office minister Jess Phillips received a lot of blowback online as a result of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s criticism of the decision. Mrs Badenoch faced questions about her own party’s record in its handling of the grooming gang scandal.
– May 2025
The Conservatives suffered a heavy defeat in the May local elections. Mrs Badenoch apologized to her party over the result.
Ahead of the launch of the Tory local election campaign, he warned that it would be a difficult period of voting for the party after its general election defeat.
– July 2025
Senior Conservative figures announced they were joining Reform UK in a major challenge to Mrs Badenoch’s leadership. They included former Conservative chairman Jake Berry and former Welsh Secretary David Jones.
– September 2025
High-profile defections to Reform continued to prove a headache for the Conservative leader. Incumbent Conservative MP Danny Kruger joined Reform and promised to help prepare it for government. Other Tory figures attending the party included former culture secretary Nadine Dorries and former health minister Maria Caulfield.
– October 2025
Mrs Badenoch’s first Conservative Party conference as leader. The event was described as pale in comparison to previous Conservative conferences. But it also resulted in a series of major policy announcements for the Tories, setting the tone for the future under the new leader.
These include confirmation – following a review led by former Justice Minister Lord Wolfson – that the party would support leaving the European Convention on Human Rights to tackle migration.
Mrs Badenoch also made the surprise announcement that the Tories would scrap stamp duty, the tax paid by home buyers on the purchase of their main homes.