Political Quotes

Kemi Badenoch

The Public Record

Jun 10, 2026

You don’t need a duty to tell you to take account of differences. Quite often differences are obvious.

theguardian.com
Jun 10, 2026

The reason that he's dithering is because he doesn't know where the money is coming from.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

We do not need to replace the duty, we need to explain to people that they should do their jobs.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

It should be a shield, not a sword.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

Modern Britain is the least racist country on Earth.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

It is because we are not racist, because we care so much about equality that we have overcorrected and actually brought in rules that are actually discriminatory.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

Repealing the PSED would be the best way to remove discrimination from the law while still protecting equality under the law.

bbc.com
Jun 9, 2026

All these crimes could have been stopped if people had intervened instead of having a fear of being called racist.

theguardian.com
Jun 9, 2026

I’m afraid it doesn’t matter if more black boys are searched, because it means more black lives will be saved.

theguardian.com
Jun 9, 2026

I am not going to run away from an outcry and allow other people’s children to be killed just so I can have a quiet life.

theguardian.com
Jun 8, 2026

The Conservative Party wants to fight for oil and gas, fight for Aberdeen, fight for Scotland.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 7, 2026

We have the best candidate, we have the best plan for Aberdeen, that is to get Britain drilling again.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 7, 2026

He said 'every meeting I have with Labour MPs is about who we can tax so we can pay more benefits'.

bbc.com
Jun 7, 2026

On all the doorsteps, a lot of people are telling us that this is the right thing, people have asked me to save the city, they feel that Aberdeen is dying.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 7, 2026

Russell Findlay is the best person right now to be running the Scottish Conservative Party.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 7, 2026

He should be first minister, he’s the only person of all the party leaders in Scotland who knows what he’s doing – I have complete faith in him.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 7, 2026

We have the right people, we have the right plan, we are serious and we’re a united team.

heraldscotland.com
Jun 5, 2026

That trust has been broken because of what happened, and I agree with them on that.

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

We should stop trying to look for different ways to divide people and look for ways to bring people together.

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

I believe that I am English when it comes to that civic identity. It's where I live. It's where I love, it's the football team that I support. But it's not in my blood.

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

Not any time soon. No, I don't think we're potentially in a civil war scenario now. But if we don't sort it now, then we're leaving a much worse country to our children.

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

Parties which do that, politicians who do that, they may get to benefit in the short term, but in the long term, that's how you end up with civil war.

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

This is not a racist country. But now we are seeing more and more hostility to people of every ethnicity, whether they're English or not English, because people are bringing political conflict into an area where we didn't have political…

bbc.com
Jun 5, 2026

It is time to root out all identity politics from state institutions.

theguardian.com

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