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From a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) conference at Excel in London (17 February 2025), as cited in "Read: Kemi Badenoch’s full speech at the Arc Conference", The Spectator (17 February 2025)
• Minor typographical modification, the source text is rendered as "self-doubt or weakness. Our country". For details which are not in The Spectator text, see an article in the Financial Times.
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[I]n the United Kingdom, my party is starting the largest renewal of policy and ideas in a generation. ... If we get this right, we stand at the dawn of a new conservative century with so much opportunity and possibility. If we throw this opportunity away because of anger or self-doubt or weakness [o]ur country and all of western civilisation will be lost. And that is why we, the next generation of conservatives, must lead the world back from the precipice.

— Kemi Badenoch

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[I]n the United Kingdom, my party is starting the largest renewal of policy and ideas in a generation. ... If we get this right, we stand at the dawn of a new conservative century with so much opportunity and possibility. If we throw this opportunity away because of anger or self-doubt or weakness [o]ur country and all of western civilisation will be lost. And that is why we, the next generation of conservatives, must lead the world back from the precipice." in the context of "From a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) conference at Excel in London (17 February 2025), as cited in "Read: Kemi Badenoch’s full speech at the Arc Conference", The Spectator (17 February 2025)
• Minor typographical modification, the source text is rendered as "self-doubt or weakness. Our country". For details which are not in The Spectator text, see an article in the Financial Times." 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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