Kemi Badenoch

Group chats have proven popular breeding grounds for fake news, with dubious articles from even more dubious sources being shared and reshared at the touch of a smartphone.

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People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

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I was lucky. I got university degrees and had a successful tech and finance career. But many of my generation weren't.

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My children are mixed race. I want them to think: 'This is our country, our father's family has been here for thousands of years.'

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We should honour the memory of past members like Airey Neave by treating each other and the institution of parliament itself with more respect. Nobody should denigrate it for doing exactly what it should be doing - debating and arguing the most difficult and complex decisions of our time.

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If you let people think they can get away with a certain type of behaviour, people will take advantage of it.

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Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who doesn't conform is a 'coconut' an 'Uncle Tom' (or as Ms Dent Coad stated in her blog, a 'token'). It implies we are too stupid to understand what it means to be conservative, or are race traitors.

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Identity politics may claim to defend the rights of individuals, but increasingly it has become a mechanism for undermining the freedom of people to hold and express an opposing view.

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I believe the vote for Brexit was the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom.

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Simple language, simple ideas and a positive vision for the future - this holy trinity holds the key to unlocking the next generation.

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I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would wish on anyone.

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Our history is our own; it's not America's. Too often, those who campaign against racial inequality import wholesale a narrative and assumptions that have nothing to do with this country's history and have no place on these islands.

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I want people to realise we're not just stuffy aristocrats and Old Etonians. There are black Tories and lots of middle and working-class people of different skin colour who are Conservatives.

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Quotes by Kemi Badenoch