Liz Truss confirms Kemi Badenoch in line for top cabinet role if she wins Tory leadership race

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Liz Truss has confirmed that she will place Kemi Badenoch in a top cabinet role should she win the Tory leadership race and become prime minister.

Truss and Rishi Sunak are continuing to battle it out and win the support of around 150,000 Tory party members. The winner of the Tory leadership race, who will both become Conservative Party leader and the prime minister of Britain, will be announced on 5 September as parliament returns.

Speaking on The People’s Forum with Liz Truss, aired by GB News, Truss confirmed on Wednesday night (10 August), that she would be appointing Badenoch to a top position in her cabinet if she were to win.

She said: “Kemi, I’ve worked with her as women and equalities minister. You know, we’ve taken on a lot of the agenda of people who are trying to deny that women were women and so on.

“So I think she is absolutely brilliant and I would definitely want her as part of my team if I am successful.”

This is incredibly disturbing. Kemi Badenoch is a “culture wars” zealot – focusing on targeting minorities in preference to addressing the important issues like the #CostOfLivingCrisis

We need serious change, not just a changing of the guards! #EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/t4ZcJZ8ZCC

— Helen