Political Quotes

Kemi Badenoch

The Public Record

Jun 29, 2026

A speech full of warm words to a friendly crowd is not a substitute for speaking at the despatch box where MPs can question the substance of what he has said.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 29, 2026

Andy Burnham is days away from taking charge of the country and still has not told people the basics: Will he stick to the Labour manifesto?

bbc.co.uk
Jun 27, 2026

To fund our defence, Britain has to cut its welfare bill. That is why the Conservatives will restore the two-child benefit cap and use the money saved on defence.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 25, 2026

The reason why those taxes were put in place was to fund more teachers. Phillipson promised 6,500 teachers - we have 2,000 fewer teachers. We have gone backwards both years she has been education secretary.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

It turns out appointing a spiteful class warrior as Education Secretary was a disaster.

mirror.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

She taxed private schools to pay for more teachers, but the number of teachers has gone down.

mirror.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are.

mirror.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

The fact is if she knew so much about poor children she wouldn't have given them fewer teachers.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

I speak for those people whose lives you're destroying and I'll NEVER stop speaking up for them.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

You are sacrificing the future of generations of kids on the altar of your class envy - reversing even Labour's academy reforms.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

I will fight you all the way, you're destroying children's lives.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

You are spiteful, I'm never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are.

bbc.co.uk
Jun 24, 2026

Labour MPs have abandoned him for a pair of eyelashes and a black t-shirt

bbc.co.uk
Jun 21, 2026

Yesterday, the people of Aberdeen sent a message on behalf of the whole country. Energy security is national security.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 21, 2026

We need to understand what the law is. The Equality Act specifies that sex, as written in the Act, is biological sex, so where there are public services and provisions that need to be made on the basis of that, that’s what the SNP should…

heraldscotland.com
Jun 21, 2026

Absolutely. It is time to draw a line under this. I do not understand why the SNP want to die on this hill of putting men in women’s prisons. It’s extraordinary.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 21, 2026

We are not the same, and voters are not ours to trade like football cards.

theguardian.com
Jun 21, 2026

Thankfully, I know terrible advice when I hear it and the results on Friday proved my point.

theguardian.com
Jun 21, 2026

And what kind of character accepts £5m in cash and says it was merely a gift?

theguardian.com
Jun 21, 2026

Character matters in politics because character is what is tested when things get tough.

theguardian.com
Jun 21, 2026

The results have left the idea of the Conservatives doing a deal with Reform stone-dead.

theguardian.com
Jun 21, 2026

Aberdeen will not be ignored. The sector will not be ignored.

bbc.com
Jun 20, 2026

This could be a turning point for us. It is an extraordinary victory, and Kemi has something to pin our comeback on.

independent.co.uk
Jun 20, 2026

A message has been sent that we do need to drill our own oil in the North Sea, not take oil from Russia or Norway when we have got our own oil right here.

theguardian.com
Jun 20, 2026

What this means is that we have won that referendum on oil and gas.

theguardian.com

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