How do you know what an authoritative source is when everyone is trying to make the news rather than report the news? That's the new thing it our age… - Kemi Badenoch
" "How do you know what an authoritative source is when everyone is trying to make the news rather than report the news? That's the new thing it our age. A lot of media doesn't want to observe and report. It wants to influence. It wants to be on the pitch rather than reporting.
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About Kemi Badenoch
Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-nok; née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, in 2017 she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex, having previously served as a Member of the London Assembly. Badenoch supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. After a series of junior ministerial positions under Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022, she served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022, until the 2024 general election. Following Labour's return to government after the election, Badenoch was a candidate to become leader of the Conservatives.
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Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke
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Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch
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Olukemi Adgegoke Badenoch
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Olukemi Olufunto Adgegoke
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[About planned changes within her party:] It's not going to happen overnight. I get lots of criticizm of 'You haven't changed anything!' You know, it's been four weeks I think, I have four and a half years to do this, maybe a bit less, but there is a plan. But you have to do things systematically and properly. I'm a systems analyst, I don't rush into things. And I think this is the biggest challenge for people: Having an engineer and a systems analyst in charge rather than a politician or a lawyer who just talks, talks, talks. I'm not somebody who starts with the rethoric.
[On civil servants] There's about 5-10% of them who are very, very bad. You know, should-be-in-prison bad. [...] Leaking official secrets, undermining their ministers … agitating. I had some of it in my department, usually union-led, but most of them actually want to do a good job. And the good ones are very frustrated by the bad ones.
The middle-class now has changed. It has become a lot more bureaucratic and we are producing more and more people from universities who are going into a bureaucratic job rather than a genuine producing job where you're adding value. And that, I think, is why the growth is reducing at the same time as we're facing increased competition from other countries that are not spending a lot of time on bureaucracy. The EU is the classing of this genre; It's all about pumping out regulation.
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