7 h. ago Tory leader Kemi Badenoch ridiculed over 'delusional' oil and gas plan

After a speech in which the Conservative leader vowed to reverse the 'impossible ideology of net zero by 2050', she has now been accused of lacking any real policy

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23 h. ago Tory leader Kemi Badenoch slams Labour for treating oil and gas sector as a ‘relic of the past’

Badenoch will pledge to make North Sea oil and gas the ‘cornerstone’ of the economy

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47 h. ago Tories to challenge Rachel Reeves to rule out ‘damaging property taxes’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the Chancellor was trapped in a ‘tax doom loop’.

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57 h. ago Tories promise to extract "all" remaining oil and gas from North Sea

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will make a speech in Aberdeen on Tuesday in an attempt to use energy policy as a political dividing line.

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59 h. ago Badenoch in pledge to ‘get all our oil and gas out of the North Sea’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said a Conservative administration would maximise extraction.

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68 h. ago Kemi Badenoch calls for North Sea oil boom: Tory leader vows to end 'impossible' Net Zero drive and focus on maximum extraction of Britain's fossil fuels

The Conservative Party will make 'maximising extraction' the goal, in a move away from Net Zero pledges to end new fossil fuel extraction.

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4 d. ago Ministers face backlash after Epping asylum hotel injunction overturned

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir Starmer ‘puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people’.

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9 d. ago Kemi Badenoch hits out at 'hysterical' attacks from racist trolls

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes

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9 d. ago Badenoch calls Jenrick supporters hoping to oust her ‘sore losers’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also hit out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes.

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2 w. ago ‘A victory for mums and dads’ as asylum seekers to be removed from Essex hotel

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at Labour for ‘putting young male illegal immigrants’ in towns

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2 w. ago Women's rights champion and Olympic hero Sharron Davies is set to become Conservative peer

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will reportedly appoint the 62-year-old to the House of Lords alongside columnist Simon Heffer and Graham Edwards, the Tory party treasurer and mega-donor.

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3 w. ago JD Vance to meet Farage and Jenrick during Cotswolds holiday

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will not link up with the US vice-president on account of a schedule clash

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch suggests 'camps' to house asylum seekers instead of hotels in visit to Epping

The Tory leader spoke with anti-migrant protesters during a visit to Epping on Monday

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3 w. ago ‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling

US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the USThe Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife, undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth.More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago BBC viewers cringe at Kemi Badenoch's 'fields of wheat' moment

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch opened up about snitching on a fellow student, who was cheating on his exams, while at school in a BBC interview - and viewers have slammed the politician

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch snitched on a cheating pupil at school who was then expelled

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch claimed her fellow students were not impressed after she stood up in an exam and accused another pupil of cheating, who was later expelled

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3 w. ago Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’

Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew out a candle’ when it came to her faith

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3 w. ago Asylum seekers who work illegally should be on ‘next plane home’ – Badenoch

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and shadow home secretary Chris Philp have proposed a crackdown on illegal working.

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4 w. ago Truss ‘carries quite a lot of blame’ for Tory record, Badenoch claims

Current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said she was ‘very focused on what the Conservatives are doing now’.

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