Kemi Badenoch - 'It’s a shame our discussions in Shadow Cabinet were leaked yesterday'

July 10th, 2024

Kemi Badenoch doesn't appear to be very happy that details of Shadow Cabinet discussions have been leaked to the media.

Ms Badenoch posted to X:

It’s a shame our discussions in Shadow Cabinet were leaked yesterday. If there is no private space to discuss our Party's challenges, we will never fully address what the electorate told us last week.

The views of those outside these meetings matter too. Not just backbench MPs, but our party activists, members and friends who lost seats after giving everything to the campaign.

In government, we had too much nodding along in the room and arguments outside it. That culture needs to change. We need to be honest with one another in private, and united in the direction we take afterwards.

Kemi Badenoch's post comes after Steven Swinford, Political Editor at The Times, posted an exclusive to X, revealing statements allegedly made by Ms Badenoch in the shadow cabinet meeting.

Some of the alleged statements are:

"Ms Badenoch used first meeting of shadow cabinet to criticise Rishi Sunak's election campaign."

"Ms Badenoch said that Sunak's decision to call an early election without informing his Cabinet was a mistake and bordered on 'unconstitutional'."

"Badenoch described Williams as a 'buffoon'."

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