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>They still recall the times when she was magnificent. 20 October 2020. Britain’s virus-afflicted care homes resembled Goya paintings but the House of Commons was discussing Black History Month. The member for Saffron Walden, the minister for equalities, was not amused. “I want to speak about a dangerous trend in race relations,” she began, speaking quickly, clearly, angrily. She was the only Tory cabinet minister to have been raised in Africa. The only Tory cabinet minister who was raised in a former colony. And she was the only Tory cabinet minister who, it was said, truly understood – and valued – what made Britain great, because she could see it through the eyes of an immigrant. The mere physical fact of her – a black woman, not a white man – said that she was not like the other Tories; not born to rule; not willing to take Britain for granted; not able to decadently assume the country could carry on with things going wrong all the time and still be the same Britain she loved.
>Kemi Badenoch stood up, her hands cutting the air, her fingers jabbing towards the bewildered Labour MPs. She attacked critical race theory: “Blackness as victimhood… whiteness as oppression.” It was one of her subjects, like the debates around trans issues and the Black Lives Matters movement, like so many things she talked about that seemed so important in October 2020. The speech was clipped up and shared online. It went viral. Interviews followed with magazines and newspapers. She grounded her politics in her personal story and was rewarded with attention.
>She presented herself as no nonsense, no compromise, combat ready. She would rout the “woke mob”, shatter the “metropolitan elite”. She would restore sanity to art galleries and gender clinics across the land. Older Conservatives, the fundraisers and the media barons and the lords, purred in delight. If they squinted hard enough, the Lady came into view. They had found their saviour.
>They still recall the times when she was magnificent. 20 October 2020. Britain’s virus-afflicted care homes resembled Goya paintings but the House of Commons was discussing Black History Month. The member for Saffron Walden, the minister for equalities, was not amused. “I want to speak about a dangerous trend in race relations,” she began, speaking quickly, clearly, angrily. She was the only Tory cabinet minister to have been raised in Africa. The only Tory cabinet minister who was raised in a former colony. And she was the only Tory cabinet minister who, it was said, truly understood – and valued – what made Britain great, because she could see it through the eyes of an immigrant. The mere physical fact of her – a black woman, not a white man – said that she was not like the other Tories; not born to rule; not willing to take Britain for granted; not able to decadently assume the country could carry on with things going wrong all the time and still be the same Britain she loved.
>Kemi Badenoch stood up, her hands cutting the air, her fingers jabbing towards the bewildered Labour MPs. She attacked critical race theory: “Blackness as victimhood… whiteness as oppression.” It was one of her subjects, like the debates around trans issues and the Black Lives Matters movement, like so many things she talked about that seemed so important in October 2020. The speech was clipped up and shared online. It went viral. Interviews followed with magazines and newspapers. She grounded her politics in her personal story and was rewarded with attention.
>She presented herself as no nonsense, no compromise, combat ready. She would rout the “woke mob”, shatter the “metropolitan elite”. She would restore sanity to art galleries and gender clinics across the land. Older Conservatives, the fundraisers and the media barons and the lords, purred in delight. If they squinted hard enough, the Lady came into view. They had found their saviour.
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