Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager

The conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told the BBC how he was standing up in an exam and accused another student of cheating and led to being expelled from school.

In a comprehensive interview with Amol Rajan, the Tora leader talks about how his childhood in Nigeria shaped the politics and character.

Talked about his hatred of the rules, when he stood up in an exam, he said that it was “about 14 or 15” and “” cheating, the person who did it “and this child was deported.”

“I was not praised for this. I was a relatively popular child at school and people ‘Why did you do this, why are you doing?’ He said.

“I said, ‘Because he was doing the wrong thing’.”

In other parts of the interview, he talks about how he lost his belief in God, but he still sees himself as a “cultural Christian”, and in the 1990s, some teachers in England have a lack of ambition for black children.

Badenoch was born in London in 1980, but grew up in Nigeria and the United States where his mother taught.

He returned to England at the age of 16 to live with a family friend because of the worsening political and economic situation in Nigeria, and told Rajan to Rajan, because he wanted to be in London, because he really, really “.

Last week, he said that he was no longer defined as Nigerian – a strong interpretation in Nigeria, a series of political figures that constantly accuse him of depicting the country under bad light.

Badenoch worked at a McDonald’s restaurant and elsewhere for A level A level in South London.

In his interview, when black children say that they are directed to professional qualities instead of A levels and gave up applying to Oxford and Cambridge, he talks about the “poverty of low expectations” that he met at the university in London.

Badenoch emphasizes that they do not think that they do not have all the teachers who exhibit these attitudes and that they are racist, but they think they “help” by lowering expectations.

At that time, the BBC spoke to Badenoch’s college, the college, “he was trying to do the best for each student, regardless of his past” and the Torah leader’s interpretation of low expectations “sounds like a rhetorical to strengthen his political narrative”.

When this was put to him by Rajan, Badenoch insisted that it was not just a political rhetoric, and we will never correct it if people deny these things happen.

This is not just a problem for black children, “a large number of white working class children, teachers ‘eh, no one really wants to do anything. We will not force you. Very difficult. It’s not worth it.’

“This is not true.”

Badenoch completed his computer engineering degree at the University of Sussex and worked in the field of finance before he entered politics. In 2012, he married the banker Hamish Badenoch and has three children.

In the BBC interview, GP talks about how proud he was when his father Femi Adegoke was a member of parliament in 2017.

As a brain tumor died in 2022, Badenoch says: “He knew you were dead and said,” I know you’ll go to the end and I know I’m not there to see him. “And that’s really sad.

He also talks about losing his belief in God after watching the arrest of Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive for 24 years in a dungeon he built under his house.

“I couldn’t stop reading this story. And I read how he prayed to be saved every day.

“And I thought, I was praying for all kinds of stupid things and I was answering my prayers. I was praying to have good grades, my hair should grow longer and prayed in time of the bus, so I don’t miss anything.

“As if these prayers were answered, this was not the prayers of the woman? And someone seemed to have detonated a candle.”

But he added: “I rejected God, not Christianity. So I would still define myself as a cultural Christian.”

Since Badenoch leader in November last year, conservatives lost control of 10 local authorities to Nigel Farage’s reform England and fell to the third or fourth place in national opinion polls.

He insisted that he knew that “the leader of the opposition has become more difficult than the facilitation” and repeated his objection for “patience”.

“I’m always trying to write, and I’ve always been successful and I believe I can do it with the conservative party”.

Amol Rajan Interviews: Kemi Badenoch, 19:00 BBC2 on Thursday, August 8th – and IPlalayer