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Kemi Badenoch
Leader of the Opposition — Conservative
73
HEAVY COPE
Latest Incident
Latest: Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes - bbc.co.uk — scored 72 (scapegoating) on 2026-09-28
Score History
Cope Entries (45)
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72
"Badenoch claims people who can work are choosing not to and earning more in benefits than people in jobs."
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18
"Claims that the UK's tax burden (tax revenue as a share of GDP) is the highest it has ever been."
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48
"Badenoch pledges to lower retailer costs and restore tax-free shopping for overseas visitors to support job creation, while ruling out widespread business rates reform."
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52
"Accuses the government of avoiding difficult choices by simply asking taxpayers for more money rather than making spending cuts."
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24
"Planned tourist taxes on overnight stays will be a disaster for hospitality businesses because tourists would simply stay away from the UK if holiday prices increased."
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62
"Badenoch accused the PM of 'living in the past' for blaming 40 years of neoliberalism and Thatcher-era policies for Britain's economic drift."
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38
"Badenoch accused Burnham of having a wrong diagnosis and wrong theory of growth, arguing that government spending more money does not automatically make people richer."
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42
"Badenoch dismissed Burnham's diagnosis and growth theory, asserting that government spending more money will not make everyone richer."
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62
"Kemi Badenoch dismissed Burnham's Brexit damage diagnosis as 'living in the past' and fixating on 1980s policies, rather than engaging with the structural economic consequences of Brexit."
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30
"Badenoch argues that Andy Burnham's theory that government spending makes everyone richer is wrong and that this is not how economic growth works."
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68
"Making Britain your home should be earned by working, paying tax and integrating — used as the framing to justify ending social housing access for foreign nationals."
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84
"Kemi Badenoch is pledging to ban foreign nationals from social housing allocation."
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58
"The best way to deliver cleaner energy and a better environment is through markets, innovation and competition rather than state diktat, arbitrary deadlines and bureaucracy."
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68
"Responds to a wealth tax proposal by saying individuals like Lineker are already free to write a cheque to the Treasury voluntarily, dismissing the need for structural reform."
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77
"Ed Miliband is the single 'villain' to blame for Britain's economic woes and has 'made our country poorer'."
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70
"Labour MPs only want higher taxes to hand out more benefits; these are Labour's choices and values regardless of leadership."
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50
"Badenoch called Starmer a 'terrible prime minister', attacked the rise in employer National Insurance contributions, accused Labour of 'giving up on real welfare reform', and claimed Labour MPs 'only want higher taxes to hand out more benefits'."
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74
"Kemi Badenoch told City executives that 'the rest of the world is eating London's lunch' to justify sweeping deregulation including scrapping ring-fencing."
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76
"Kemi Badenoch claims that excessive regulation and red tape in the City of London is one of the main reasons the UK has become a low-growth economy, arguing that eliminating risk eliminates reward and growth."
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65
"Badenoch says the PM isn't funding defence 'properly' and should 'cut welfare' to do so."
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70
"Public sector equality duties are part of 'dangerous and divisive agendas'."
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50
"The Public Sector Equality Duty should be scrapped because it promotes 'dangerous and divisive agendas' and has become a legal minefield for public decision-making."
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75
"Attributed the failure of police to act correctly in the Henry Nowak case to 'nonsense' training introduced following the Black Lives Matter movement."
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62
"Labour MPs do not understand that taxes are the result of citizens' hard work and instead mistakenly view public funds as their own money to spend."
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62
"Accuses the government of secretly removing sanctions on Russian oil to fund the killing of Ukrainian soldiers."
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62
"The government's decision to extend the fuel duty freeze is a 'U-turn' brought about because the Conservative Party had called for it."
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65
"The UK government is hypocritically importing Russian-refined oil while simultaneously restricting domestic North Sea oil and gas drilling."
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75
"Kemi Badenoch claims the Conservatives are coming back despite losing about 500 councillors and ceding control of three local authorities to Reform UK."
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72
"Claimed that the Conservative Party achieved 'sensational results' in the local elections."
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64
"Kemi Badenoch confronted a pro-Palestine heckler while campaigning, asserting she speaks out against antisemitism and does not back down."
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62
"Argued that all pro-Gaza marches should be stopped because they create a climate that normalises hatred towards Jews."
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74
"Tightening benefit cap rules will stop people from 'abusing the system' to receive 'almost unlimited' welfare payments."
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68
"Called for a total ban on pro-Palestine marches, claiming they serve as a cover for promoting violence and intimidation against Jews."
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72
"Suggested that the minimum wage should not increase further because businesses are struggling to pay it."
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71
"Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of having 'squandered his political capital', presiding over 'one disaster after another', and being focused on 'saving his own skin'."
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75
"Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of squandering his political capital and presiding over disasters while saving his own skin rather than governing effectively."
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28
"Kemi Badenoch did not protest against the decision"
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48
"It’s almost as if Kemi Badenoch is playing a strange game in trying to maintain Starmer in Downing Street."
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72
"Kemi Badenoch has said that about 10% of civil servants are so ‘obstructive’ that they should be in jail."
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8
"Afternoon: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit in Pembrokeshire, with the Welsh Tory leader, Darren Millar."
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70
"Labour is bad for business and the current government targets entrepreneurs."
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72
"Labour views drivers as a 'cash cow' and deliberately makes their lives difficult through fuel duty and regulations, whereas Conservatives understand the necessity of cars for hardworking families."
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68
""The Conservatives back business, because we know that it isn’t Government that creates economic growth, it’s business.""
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68
""called for the PM to resign, saying he had 'thrown his staff and officials under the bus' rather than 'taking responsibility'.""
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52
""what he has given them is cronyism and an Old Boy's Club""