The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch claimed her fellow students were not impressed after she stood up in an exam and accused another pupil of cheating, who was later expelled
Kemi Badenoch snitched on a fellow pupil at school and got them expelled, she has revealed.
The Tory leader, who abstained on a vote supporting a report that found Boris Johnson repeatedly misled parliament, told the BBC she had a hatred of rule-breakers. She explained she was “about 14 or 15” when she stood up in an exam and said “‘he’s cheating, he’s the one that’s doing it’, and that boy ended up getting expelled”.
Ms Badenoch claimed her fellow students failed to praise her for dobbing the pupil in. She added: “I didn’t get praised for it. I was a relatively popular kid at school, and people said ‘why did you do that, why would you do it?’ I said ‘because he was doing the wrong thing’.” It comes after reports Nigel Farage is under pressure to distance himself from ‘racist’ Ant Middleton rant.
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It came during a wide-ranging interview, where the embattled Conservative leader also announced that the case of Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl “killed” her belief in God. Describing herself as a “Christian apologist”, she said this changed after reading the vile story of Fritzl, who locked his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and fathering seven children with her.
Ms Badenoch, whose maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister, said: “I thought to myself, no human being should have had to experience what this woman did. “And maybe because I was very close to my father. So the idea of a father doing that to his own daughter for me was a level of disgust and abhorrence that I’d never experienced.
“I couldn’t stop reading this story. And I read her account, how she prayed every day to be rescued. And I thought, I was praying for all sorts of stupid things and I was getting my prayers answered. I was praying to have good grades, my hair should grow longer, and I would pray for the bus to come on time so I wouldn’t miss something.
“It’s like, why were those prayers answered and not this woman’s prayers? And it just, it was like someone blew out a candle.”
Ms Badenoch, who has a 21% approval rating according to YouGov, also claimed her tenure as Conservative leader was going “well”.
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