The new Tory leader wouldn’t be anywhere near the job had she not been willing to say the kind of things that would see a white politician vilified, says Mirror columnist

We need to talk about Dawn Butler. Following the election of the first ever black leader of a major party in this country, Ms Butler took to X not to congratulate but to sneer. Not to cheer this

Britain’s Conservative party has chosen their first black female leader, picking “anti-woke” Kemi Badenoch over her rival Robert Jenrick in a seminal moment in the party’s history.

*New opposition leader vows to hold government to account, return her party to power

The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken and she is the one to fix it

Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the Conservative Party, defeating Robert Jenrick in the final round of voting. Badenoch, who was raised in Nigeria, is the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK and takes over a Conservative Party reeling from its worst ever election defeat.

Kemi Badenoch has become the U.K. Conservatives' new leader and the first Black woman to lead a major British political party; she replaces former PM Rishi Sunak.

Britain’s Conservative Party has elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power

The 44-year-old, who has been a Saffron Walden and then North West Essex MP since 2017, launched her leadership bid to replace former Rishi Sunak in July. BBC Look East's Andrew Sinclair said the task facing Badenoch was "to win people back and get the Conservative Party winning again".

Kemi Badenoch became the Conservatives' new leader and the first Black woman to a head a major British political party on Saturday, after winning a leadership contest on a promise to return the party to its founding principles.

Kemi Badenoch is now the first black woman to lead a major British political party after defeating rival Robert Jenrick Saturday to take the helm of the country's Conservative and Unionist Party.