Kemi Badenoch

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has paid tribute to Tory grandee Lord Tebbit

Norman Tebbit dead: Top Tories on 'hero of conservatism'

File photo dated 17/04/13 of Lord Norman Tebbit leaves the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral. Lord Norman Tebbit has died "peacefully at home" at the age of 94, his son William said. Issue date: Tuesday July 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire

Tory grandee Norman Tebbit, who survived IRA's Brighton bombing, dies aged 94

A reveller at Glastonbury on Thursday, sporting a tricolour balaclava similar to one worn by DJ Provai of Kneecap. The band are due to perform at the festival on Saturday afternoon, and the BBC has now announced the performance will not be streamed live but could appear on iPlayer later. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

BBC will not show Kneecap at Glastonbury live - but could be on iPlayer

Kneecap - Moglai Bap, a rare sighting of an unmasked DJ Provai, and Mo Chara - at the UK premiere of their movie at the Sundance London Film Festival in June 2024. Photo: Ian West/PA Wire

BBC confirm Kneecap's Glastonbury set will not be live-streamed

Kneecap's Liam Og O Hannaidh leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after he appeared charged with a terrorism offence

Kneecap performances ‘satirical’, says rapper ahead of Glastonbury show

Kneecap - Mo Chara, DJ Provai and Moglai Bap - attending the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in February. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Kneecap at Glastonbury - BBC still doesn't know if it will show Belfast band

Kneecap's Liam Og O Hannaidh leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Wednesday, through a crowd of supporters after he appeared charged with a terrorism offence relating to displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig in Kentish Town on November 21. Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Kneecap playing a slot at Glastonbury is ‘not appropriate’, says Keir Starmer

Kneecap performing at the SSE Arena in Belfast in December 2024. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

BBC should ban Kneecap at Glasto and not 'reward extremism', says Badenoch

File photo of Zia Yusuf, who has quit as Reform UK party chairman. Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire

Reform UK chairman quits after calling burka ban question from party MP 'dumb'

The then Sinn Fein leaders Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams were among those who carried the coffin of the IRA Army Council member Brian Keenan's coffin through west Belfast in 2008. Picture: Arthur Allison

Stop ‘outrageous’ UK pay-out to Gerry Adams - Unionists tell Labour to act

Michael Black, Deputy Chair of the Belfast Jewish Community, believes Israel's allies should critisize it in private, to avoid emboldening terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Belfast Jewish leader affirms Kemi’s criticism of Starmer

Members of Kneecap, from left, Liam Og O Hannaigh (Mo Chara), JJ O'Dochartaigh (aDJ Provai) and Naoise O Caireallain (Moglai Bap). Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Kneecap mock Badenoch ahead of headline show in London

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday May 21, 2025. PA Photo.

Welcome for PM ‘u-turn’ on winter fuel payments

Kemi Badenoch is hamstrung by past Conservative failures in government

Owen Polley: Northern Ireland looks short of saviours at Westminster

Self Esteem, also known as Rebecca Lucy Taylor, is due to perform at the music festival

Self Esteem says she is ‘comfortable sharing’ Glastonbury line-up with Kneecap

Those who denigrate Nigel Farage at best do so out of ignorance, writes David McNarry

Letter: Nigel Farage will respect a single, united unionism
A letter from David McNarry:
Letters

Kneecap - Mo Chara, DJ Provai and Moglai Bap - attending the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in February. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Musicians rally around Kneecap with letter against 'political repression'

Letters to editor

Letter: Tory leaders do not get to decide on who gets prosecuted

Katie Amess, daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess.

Kneecap apology branded 'gaslighting' by daughter of murdered MP

Kneecap said that they do not support violence against MPs. A video had emerged of the group at a November 2023 gig appearing to show one member saying: 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP'

Kneecap say sorry to families of murdered MPs and insist they don't back Hamas

DJ Provai from Kneecap in a republican balaclava. Imagine a band wearing a loyalist one that evoked the UVF and UDA and everyone just taking it as a harmless joke (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Lowry: Imagine a loyalist band wearing balaclavas like Kneecap

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Labour minister says scheme under which Kneecap given funding now 'under review'

Former Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick

Jenrick ‘coalition’ remark puts pressure on Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to end the “cruel” family farm inheritance tax

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to end the “cruel” family farm inheritance tax

Morning View

Editorial: NI should be rid of ‘non criminal hate incident’ nonsense

King Charles III and Queen Camilla during their visit to the Senate of the Republic, on the third day of the four day state visit to Italy

King puts peace at the heart of his message to Italy’s parliament

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch in Parliament with her 'policy brain' and Northern Ireland spokesman Alex Burghart. Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Thatcher was a scientist, Badenoch an engineer
I was transfixed last year by the brilliant three-volume biography of Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore.
Ruth Dudley Edwards

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch addressing the Northern Ireland Tory conference in Belfast. She left them in a conundrum

Owen Polley: Badenoch's misleading statement on Windsor Framework has two flaws

Head of the NI Civil Service Jayne Brady waving a 'progress' flag - a contested symbol of the LGBTQ+ movement - at Belfast Pride.

Kemi Badenoch says Stormont should have left controversial Stonewall scheme

UUP MLA Steve Aiken has expressed concern about comments by Kemi Badenoch on the Windsor Framework and UK withdrawal from the ECHR. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Kemi Badenoch’s views on Windsor Framework and ECHR are ‘concerning’ - Aiken

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has made clear her party's commitment to the Irish Sea border trade arrangements, in an interview with the News Letter. Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire

Tories won't 'unpick' the Windsor Framework, Kemi Badenoch tells News Letter

US President Donald Trump during a press conference in the White House last week. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

DUP MP: Trump should show humility to back up claim of being appointed by God

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and shadow NI Secretary Alex Burghart attended the Northern Ireland Conservatives conference in Belfast on Saturday.

NI Tories call to 'rewire, reprogram and reboot the UK state and economy'

Screen grab of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Russia claims UK and France are ‘heating up’ Ukraine war

Sir Keir Starmer has slashed the aid budget to fund a dramatic increase in defence spending in response to "tyrant" Vladimir Putin and uncertainty over US President Donald Trump's commitment to European security.

Starmer slashes aid to fund defence spending

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference at ExCel London, at the Royal Victoria Dock in east London. Mrs Badenoch’s speech made some points that were harder than we have become used to hearing from Tory leaders. She said recent waves of immigration brought, 'behaviours, cultures and practices that will undermine the West and the values that helped make us great'

Owen Polley: Badenoch should apply ‘British people first’ line to NI

Morning View

Editorial: Civilisation is indeed potentially a fragile thing

Kemi Badenoch has dismissed Reform UK as a "protest party" as Nigel Farage prepares to hold a rally in her constituency.

Kemi Badenoch dismisses ‘protest party’ Reform UK

Morning View

Editorial: A cautious welcome for potential Tory shift on Irish Sea border

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch. Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Kemi Badenoch backs TUV's Allister over Irish Sea border legislation

Sir Keir Starmer speaking today during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. After being quizzed by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that the government 'may write a cheque to compensate Gerry Adams', the prime minister responded that 'we will look at every conceivable way to prevent these types of cases claiming damages'

Starmer looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to avoid compensating Adams

Morning View

Editorial: Public inquiry is needed into grooming gangs scandal

JJ O'Dochartaigh, also known as DJ Provai, of rap group Kneecap which is accused of 'rebranding' the Troubles.

Troubles victims group slams film gongs for Kneecap

Kemi Badenoch called the decision to concede the case ‘cowardly’

Kemi Badenoch blasts Labour over decision to concede Kneecap case

Morning View

Editorial: Disgraceful Kneecap grant is reinstated, yet this surprises Badenoch

JJ O'Dochartaigh, also known as DJ Provai of Kneecap, holds up cash outside Belfast High Court after the UK government conceded a decision to refuse the band an arts grant was unlawful. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Republican rappers Kneecap win court fight for UK government cash

Kneecap member J J O’Dochartaigh, aka DJ Provai, at an earlier appearance at Belfast High Court

Kneecap wins legal challenge over Kemi Badenoch's funding award refusal

Letters to editor

Letter: The four unionist parties and Alex Easton should at last co-operate

Leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London yesterday. Earlier this year, Mrs Badenoch claimed to have a special insight into Northern Ireland's problems, because her husband once stood for election in the Foyle constituency. Unionists should see her leadership as a fresh chance to forge better relationships with the Tory party

Owen Polley: New Tory leader has chance to reset party’s policy on NI

Donald Trump is patriotic and talks to ordinary people as friends and allies with humour and high optimism

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Trump knew what mattered most - putting bread on the table

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has picked her shadow cabinet, including the return of Dame Priti Patel as shadow Foreign Secretary. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Kemi Badenoch's key NI appointments Dame Priti Patel's front bench return

Morning View

Editorial: Kemi Badenoch gets chance to stabilise Tories

Kemi Badenoch, the new Conservative Party leader.

New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch promises 'hard truths' for country and her party

Morning View

Editorial: Irish Sea border remains invisible in Tory contest

Alice Gregory with her newborn baby.

Watch: New mum had to save £15.5k to afford to have a baby

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