The anti-woke warrior who 'became working class' by flipping burgers at McDonald's: Inside Kemi Badenoch's rise to become Conservative Party leader

Most Tory MPs privately admit electing Kemi Badenoch is a risk – even those who openly backed her. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch pictured in Nigeria with her grandfather at the age of seven Kemi Badenoch gives a speech after becoming the new leader of the Conservative party after beating Robert Jenrick During the leadership contest she said that this was the period in which she 'became working class' – having been born into a middle-class family – by taking a job in McDonald's. Both Mr Gove and his friend Dougie Smith, the shadowy Tory fixer, had soon identified Mrs Badenoch as a future party leader, and encouraged her to adopt the anti-woke beliefs which have so resonated with Conservative members. New leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch smiles beside her husband Hamish Kemi Badenoch shakes hands with rival Robert Jenrick as he congratulates her on winning the Tory leadership contest Kemi Badenoch has made history after becoming the first black leader of a major British party Her time as equalities minister gave her the platform to attack identity politics, clashing with civil servants over her insistence public buildings should have separate men's and women's toilet facilities and complaining about the way her three mixed race children with her banker husband, Hamish Badenoch, are regarded solely as black. When Doctor Who actor David Tennant told an awards ceremony he would like to wake up in a world where she 'doesn't exist any more' and wished she would 'shut up', Mrs Badenoch said she would not be silenced by a 'rich, lefty, white male celebrity' attacking 'the only black woman in government'.