Could Kemi Badenoch be our next Prime Minister?

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WEST KINGSDOWN, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch sits in a Formula 4 race car during a visit to Brands Hatch on December 15, 2025 in West Kingsdown, England. Badenoch launches ...

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Starting from a low base, Kemi is herself gently recovering in the polls and is now preferred as Prime Minister against all comers except Sir Keir Starmer, whose own rating is about to pass her on the way down.Get weekly sparky insight and expert commentary on markets, entrepreneurship and innovation from CityAM’s Opinion Editor, delivered every Saturday.If this does happen, it would be unprecedented, not just in Britain but in the entire Western democracy. Barack Obama was of mixed race but was brought up by the ocean in Honolulu. Kemi was, relatively speaking, born with ‘a silver spoon in her mouth’ in Lagos in 1980, but it got ripped out as Nigeria fell into economic chaos. Arriving in Britain aged 16 due to the state of Nigeria, she has had to drag herself up by her own bootstraps. There is a self-improving hint of Thatcher to her.I have long leant in her direction. Hesitantly at first, but now with rising enthusiasm. 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(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has several critical personal talents that are not easily replicated, and the polls are starting to move in her favour, says George TrefgarneSomething astonishing is happening in British politics. Bedevilled by an entire generation of dud politicians, including now Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, we suddenly find that a 5ft 4” lady brought up in Nigeria, who went to nine schools before she was 16 because her country was falling apart, is steadily ascending in the polls.I am going to stick my neck out: Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party and of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition (a distinctly British constitutional role), might be Prime Minister, as soon as 2028. That is despite the fact that our central forecast is still that the next government will be some sort of Tory Reform combination or a pro-EU one led by Wes Streeting. If she is leader of the biggest party, the King will call her, not Nigel Farage. For the first time, it is not impossible to imagine such an eventuality.In evidence, I offer first a poll from More In Common, which shows that the total of those who say they will vote Conservative combined with those who will consider doing so has overtaken all other parties including Reform.\n\nSecond, a poll from YouGov. Starting from a low base, Kemi is herself gently recovering in the polls and is now preferred as Prime Minister against all comers except Sir Keir Starmer, whose own rating is about to pass her on the way down.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Thinking - City AM Opinion Newsletter\nGet weekly sparky insight and expert commentary on markets, entrepreneurship and innovation from City AM’s Opinion Editor, delivered every Saturday.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf this does happen, it would be unprecedented, not just in Britain but in the entire Western democracy. Barack Obama was of mixed race but was brought up by the ocean in Honolulu. Kemi was, relatively speaking, born with ‘a silver spoon in her mouth’ in Lagos in 1980, but it got ripped out as Nigeria fell into economic chaos. Arriving in Britain aged 16 due to the state of Nigeria, she has had to drag herself up by her own bootstraps. There is a self-improving hint of Thatcher to her.I have long leant in her direction. Hesitantly at first, but now with rising enthusiasm. In fact, I feel so positively towards her, you may wish to add a large pinch of salt. But bear with me.She is honestHaving got to know her a bit in the last few years, I can tell you she has several critical personal talents which are not easily replicated. I put these under the heading: character.  She is honest. Indeed, she might be the most honest politician for decades. She has stamina and is tough. She is intelligent. Arriving in Britain aged 16, she earned a master’s in systems engineering from the University of Sussex, an NVQ in computer science, and an LLB in Law from Birkbeck College, where she studied part-time while working. She also has the right instincts about institutions, markets, economics and culture. She is not a “clever idiot” from the Westminster Special Adviser factory and is evidently learning the art of reasonable decision-making.\n\nShe is a family person. This helps. She has a uniquely demanding role. Kemi and Hamish Badenoch (an MD at Deutsche Bank) share three children, but also a benign British patriotism, which is a relief from all the “broken Britain” sloganeering of others. Being a mother while also doing her job must be doubly demanding, but it also keeps her grounded in real, quotidian life.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.36.0","shortVersion":"4.36.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2603366123","isCrawlerRequest":true}