British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has re-appointed British-Nigerian lawmaker Kemi Badenoch on Tuesday as trade minister with the additional role of Equalities Minister.
Badenoch, who earlier this year was a contender in a Conservative Party leadership contest to replace then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, backed Sunak in the most recent race to replace outgoing leader Liz Truss.
Badenoch rose to prominence during this summer’s leadership contest.
Sunak also appointed her as women and equalities minister – a post she held previously during Boris Johnson’s premiership.
Badenoch, MP for Saffron Walden, came fourth in the Tory leadership contest. She has been vocal on issues such as gender-neutral toilets which she opposes – and stood on an “anti-woke” platform in the Tory contest.
She also argued that the state needed to be slimmed down. The former software engineer worked in banking and later as a director of the Spectator magazine before being elected to the London Assembly.
She entered the Commons as MP for Saffron Walden in 2017 and lists her interests as including engineering and technology, social mobility and integration.
