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"Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?" (at 1h11m39s), Honestly with Bari Weiss, 12 December 2024
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How do you know what an authoritative source is when everyone is trying to make the news rather than report the news? That's the new thing it our age. A lot of media doesn't want to observe and report. It wants to influence. It wants to be on the pitch rather than reporting.

— Kemi Badenoch

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "How do you know what an authoritative source is when everyone is trying to make the news rather than report the news? That's the new thing it our age. A lot of media doesn't want to observe and report. It wants to influence. It wants to be on the pitch rather than reporting." in the context of ""Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?" (at 1h11m39s), Honestly with Bari Weiss, 12 December 2024" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Kemi Badenoch

About Kemi Badenoch

Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-nok; née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, in 2017 she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex, having previously served as a Member of the London Assembly. Badenoch supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. After a series of junior ministerial positions under Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022, she served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022, until the 2024 general election. Following Labour's return to government after the election, Badenoch was a candidate to become leader of the Conservatives.

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