Political Quotes

Kemi Badenoch

The Public Record

Jul 27, 2026

With businesses closing or relocating, youth unemployment higher than in the eurozone, and the cost of living already causing real hardship for many people, the last thing Britain needs is further tax increases to pay for social care.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 27, 2026

The Conservatives are happy to work with you and other parties on reforming social care. But we will only support a solution that abides by two core principles.

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Jul 25, 2026

What I have said is we want people who are going to meet the standards which we are setting.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 24, 2026

This is creating another branch of the civil service in a different place.

foreignpolicy.com
Jul 24, 2026

When you are mayor of Manchester, you are handed a big pot of someone else's money, and you decide where to spend it.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 24, 2026

Kemi Badenoch has accused Andy Burnham of governing like he is still the mayor of Greater Manchester.

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Jul 24, 2026

I welcome the pause but call for killers and rapists to be permanently exempt from any future version of the scheme.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 24, 2026

He is behaving like he's still the mayor of Manchester. He is now the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

The killers of PC Harper 'should be kept in prison'

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Jul 23, 2026

Andy Burnham needs to do better. He is behaving like he's still the mayor of Manchester. He is now the prime minister of the United Kingdom, he needs to start acting like it.

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Jul 23, 2026

He doesn't actually know what he wants to do, he is thinking out loud. All that we know is it's going to cost a lot of money.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

Who are going to abide by the policies I have put red lines on.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

We are changing policies, we are changing people, we are changing process.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

It is not going to be making the mistakes of the past.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

I want people to know that this is a new Conservative party.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

We don't treat our former MPs or our candidates like tittle-tattle for Westminster gossip.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

Andy Burnham's ambitions for Britain are too small.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 23, 2026

When I look at the plans that he has announced for the country I find myself asking 'is that it'?

bbc.co.uk
Jul 22, 2026

While Andy Burnham’s cabinet are joking about letting criminals out of prison early, Conservatives are listening to victims and will continue to fight this disgusting policy.

theguardian.com
Jul 20, 2026

Every Prime Minister deserves to be able to speak in Downing Street without being drowned out by 'music'.

thenational.scot
Jul 20, 2026

It was all Labour this, Labour that, their factions, their issues. I'm not sure that he is aware of what the country's priorities are and if he's become prime minister without that then I think he's going being for a rude awakening, to use…

bbc.co.uk
Jul 19, 2026

I'm not sure that he is aware of what the country's priorities are and if he's become prime minister without that then I think he's going being for a rude awakening, to use his own words.

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Jul 19, 2026

It's all airy-fairy stuff.

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Jul 19, 2026

What the country needs right now is someone who can take tough decisions, who can face down the Labour MPs that don't want to do anything difficult.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 19, 2026

The job is not a popularity contest. It is making the lives of all of the people outside this building better. And he has not said what he's going to do. It's all airy-fairy stuff.

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