The United Kingdom, UK, Conservative Party Leader, Kemi Badenoch says it will be pointless to sack her from her position because of her party’s poor performance in last week’s council elections.
During the May 1, 2025 elections, the Conservative Party had lost 674 council seats and control of 16 authorities in the elections, as a result of which her leadership has come under criticism by some members of the party who want her out.
Her critics have even lambasted her the more because most seats were lost to the Reform Party, which won 677 council seats. Following the win, political pundits, insist that the development could change the future of the UK as a two- party state.
Recall that the UK-born Nigerian became the Conservative Party Leader, a position she took from former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak , after the party’s historic loss to the Labour Party, LP in last year’s general elections.
She however said the call for her removal as Leader by some members of her party will not change the party’s electoral fortune, saying what the party need at the moment is to focus on how to draw a wining plan for the party in the future.
According to her, there is no need for a quick fix to the party’s current problem as the party strives to win future elections.
“We tried that previously. And that brought us to a historic defeat,” Badenoch said.
Adding, “We are going to come out with the policies that people want to see, but what we are not going to do is rush out and tell the public things that are not true just so we can win votes.
“This is not about winning elections; this is about fixing our country. Yes, of course, you need to win elections to do that, but you also need a credible plan.”
Since she became the Conservative Leader in November last year, Badenoch has faced serious opposition within and outside her party.
In February, the Prime Minister, Keith Starmer had criticised Badenoch as an attention seeker, saying she has made herself the “savior of Western civilization”.
The PM remark came after Badenoch criticised him for allegedly stealing her idea on the need to increase the country’s Defence Budget.
“She’s appointed herself, I think, the saviour of Western civilisation. It’s a desperate search for relevance. If you take the numbers for this financial year, and then the numbers for financial year 27/28, that’s a £13.4bn increase—the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War,” Starmer said.
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