The Conservative Party is an institution; it is the longest-running party in the history of the world. I think that what we should be talking about is how to make sure it keeps going from strength to strength, not trashing it, destroying it, or taking it over." - Meaning and context.">
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On Nick Ferrari at Breakfast (LBC, 3 June 2024), as cited in "Nigel Farage 'wants to destroy the Conservative Party', Kemi Badenoch tells LBC", LBC (3 June 2024, updated 6 June 2024)
• It was being speculated in the media that Farage would rejoin the Conservative Party after the general election on 4 July 2024. When asked in a Sunday Times interview about a potential merger between Reform and his former party, he described his intent as "[m]ore like a takeover."
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Nigel Farage is still against many Conservatives, including some of my colleagues. [...] What he wants to do is destroy the Conservative Party.
The Conservative Party is an institution; it is the longest-running party in the history of the world. I think that what we should be talking about is how to make sure it keeps going from strength to strength, not trashing it, destroying it, or taking it over.

— Kemi Badenoch

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nigel Farage is still against many Conservatives, including some of my colleagues. [...] What he wants to do is destroy the Conservative Party.
The Conservative Party is an institution; it is the longest-running party in the history of the world. I think that what we should be talking about is how to make sure it keeps going from strength to strength, not trashing it, destroying it, or taking it over." in the context of "On Nick Ferrari at Breakfast (LBC, 3 June 2024), as cited in "Nigel Farage 'wants to destroy the Conservative Party', Kemi Badenoch tells LBC", LBC (3 June 2024, updated 6 June 2024)
• It was being speculated in the media that Farage would rejoin the Conservative Party after the general election on 4 July 2024. When asked in a Sunday Times interview about a potential merger between Reform and his former party, he described his intent as "[m]ore like a takeover."" 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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