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Nigerian Kemi Badenoch Gets Appointed Into Liz Truss Cabinet

Badenoch entered the Commons as a Member of Parliament, MP, for Saffron Walden in 2017.

Nigerian-British Kemi Badenoch has been appointed into the Liz Truss cabinet on Tuesday as the new British Prime Minister forms government after meeting with the queen on Tuesday.

 

Newsonline reports that the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Liz Truss, appointed British-Nigerian Member of Parliament Kemi Badenoch following the official resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday after meeting the queen to submit his resignation, which signified the end of Johnson’s tenure.

 

Badenoch who was one of the contestants for the office of the British PM as a member of the Conservative Party and made it to the top five in July, but lost before the last election.

 

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Badenoch entered the Commons as a Member of Parliament, MP, for Saffron Walden in 2017.

 

She has also been outspoken on issues such as ”gender-neutral toilets and anti-woke”.

 

Following Truss’s appointments so far, it would be the first time in UK history that the leading cabinet lieutenants of Britain’s Prime Minister had no white occupying any of the “great offices of state” – Treasury, Foreign Office, and Home Affairs.

NewsOnline Nigeria

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