Kemi Badenoch has amassed a hefty net worth as a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Recently, Badenoch, 44, officially launched her Tory leadership campaign with a promise to “not shut up,” reigniting a row with Doctor Who actor David Tennant.
Highlights
- Badenoch has recently launched her Tory leadership campaign.
- She has an estimated net worth of $3 million, which she earned from her political career.
- Kemi used to work as a Software Engineer at Logica.
In a video placing up her leadership launch in Westminister, Mrs. Badenoch used a clip of the actor saying he wished she would “shut up” and hoped for a word in which the MP “doesn’t exist anymore.”
Actor Tennant’s comments sparked a row at the time, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intervening to say, “If you’re calling for women to shut up and wishing they didn’t exist, you are the problem.”
Mrs. Badenoch hopes the spat will help her run on an anti-establishment ticket in the leadership race.
In her video, Badenoch said,
“No, I will not shut up when you have that kind of cultural establishment trying to keep Conservatives down. You need someone like me who is unafraid of Doctor Who or whoever.”
Kemi Badenoch
British-Nigerian Politician Kemi Badenoch Has A Net Worth Of Millions
Kemi Badenoch, aka Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch, has an estimated net worth of $3 million as of 2024, primarily earned as a politician.
As per the reports, the basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom is £91,346 ($120,001.24), plus expenses.
Therefore, politician Kemi Badenoch has an annual salary in these ranges.
As a former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury of HM Treasury, she had an annual salary of around £24,947 ($32,750).
In addition, Kemi has received benefits valued at £48,710 ($63,982.24) in the four years of the current Parliament.
All MPs have a basic wage of £84,144 ($110,526). Mrs Badenoch, Conservative MP for the Saffron Walden constituency, is also entitled to £72,454 ($95,162.67) as secretary of state for international trade.
Kemi Badenoch’s Journey From IT Sector To Politics
Kemi worked as a software engineer in the IT sector at Logica from 2003 to 2006. While working there, she studied Law part-time at Birbeck, University of London.
She joined the Conservative Party in 2005 at 25. She contested the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency and came third.
She stood for the Conservatives in the London Assembly election in 2012, where she was fifth on the London-wide list. She supported Brexit in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
Badenoch was shortlisted as the Conservative Party candidate for the marginal Hampstead and Kilburn constituency at the 2017 general election but was unsuccessful.
In July 2019, she was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
After Liz Truss became Prime Minister, Badenoch was appointed Secretary of State for International Trade in 2022.
In 2023, Kemi was appointed the first Secretary of State at the newly created Department for Business and Trade.
At the 2024 general election, she was elected to Parliament as MP for North West Essex with 35.6% of the vote and a majority of 2,610.
On July 28, 2024, she announced she was running in the election to be the new Tory and Opposition leader.
Additional Information
- Kemi’s father, Femi Adegoker, was a GP, and her mother, Feyi Adegoke, was a professor of physiology.
- She achieved A Levels from Phoenix College and studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex.
- She is married to Hamish Badenoch, with whom she shares two daughters and one son.
