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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1088/
- Published: 2024-11-03T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-03T17:30:50.000Z
- Description: The party was reduced to a record low of 121 seats in the House of Commons at the general election, with under 24 per cent of the vote.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, UK Politics

> Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted the Conservatives after securing an historic victory in the party's leadership contest.  
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> The 44-year-old becomes the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK. \[...\]  
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> Badenoch, who is the sixth Tory leader in less than nine years, now faces the task of uniting a fractured party and leading opposition to Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government.  
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> The Saffron Walden MP said the Conservatives need to "bring back" voters who abandoned them, adding: "Our party is critical to the success of our country.  
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> “But to be heard, we have to be honest.”  
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> The party must admit it “made mistakes” and “let standards slip” over the last 14 years in government, she said. \[...\]  
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> The party [was reduced to a record low of 121 seats](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xnzlzz99o?ref=goodoil.news) in the House of Commons at the general election, with under 24% of the vote.  
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> It lost voters in all directions to Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Reform UK, with thousands of Conservative voters also choosing to stay at home on 4 July poll.

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