Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. A 44-year-old engineer, she is a first-generation immigrant from Nigeria who wants to return to the free-market ideas of Margaret Thatcher. She admits that Conservative governments of the last 14 years had failed to control spending, taxes, and illegal immigration. She promises to “begin the work of renewal” and fight a Labour government that – as we reported last week – is profoundly anti-growth, pro-tax, and “woke.”
Even the Economist agrees that regulation is to blame for an astonishing range of Britain’s ailments: “low growth, high taxation, social polarization, and the weakening of the nation-state itself.”
Best of all, she had the discernment to cite Unleash Prosperity research in her manifesto.