Kemi Badenoch

And my friends who left Nigeria at the same time I did and went to the private schools, they've got a lot of money, you know, they had parents far wealthier than mine, certainly by that time, by the mid-90s, whatever relative wealth we had was gone. And these were people who I used to beat easily at school. They were suddenly doing very well.

And my friends who left Nigeria at the same time I did and went to the private schools, they've got a lot of money, you know, they had parents far wealthier than mine, certainly by that time, by the mid-90s, whatever relative wealth we had was gone. And these were people who I used to beat easily at school. They were suddenly doing very well.

And I realized that not all the schools are the same here, that there are some schools that are very focused, they coach, they train, and there are other schools which people pass through. And it was one of the things that I think was the foundation of my conservatism, that making sure everybody's got an equal chance or the best opportunity. And

And I realized that not all the schools are the same here, that there are some schools that are very focused, they coach, they train, and there are other schools which people pass through. And it was one of the things that I think was the foundation of my conservatism, that making sure everybody's got an equal chance or the best opportunity. And

And I realized that not all the schools are the same here, that there are some schools that are very focused, they coach, they train, and there are other schools which people pass through. And it was one of the things that I think was the foundation of my conservatism, that making sure everybody's got an equal chance or the best opportunity. And

i realized that yes there would have been a baseline level of you know good academics or you know intelligence with me but actually the things that made the difference were the family that i had the schools that i went to the culture around me all of those things added to however smart i was in maths and english and when you took those things away and when i started hanging out with children who didn't care about those things

i realized that yes there would have been a baseline level of you know good academics or you know intelligence with me but actually the things that made the difference were the family that i had the schools that i went to the culture around me all of those things added to however smart i was in maths and english and when you took those things away and when i started hanging out with children who didn't care about those things

i realized that yes there would have been a baseline level of you know good academics or you know intelligence with me but actually the things that made the difference were the family that i had the schools that i went to the culture around me all of those things added to however smart i was in maths and english and when you took those things away and when i started hanging out with children who didn't care about those things

then my academic results dropped. And it took a while for me to get back on track. And I ended up studying engineering. Sorry? How did you get back on track? So it took a while for me to just figure out what I wanted to do. Engineering was, when I realized I couldn't get into medical school here, very competitive. And the number of places are regulated in the UK.

then my academic results dropped. And it took a while for me to get back on track. And I ended up studying engineering. Sorry? How did you get back on track? So it took a while for me to just figure out what I wanted to do. Engineering was, when I realized I couldn't get into medical school here, very competitive. And the number of places are regulated in the UK.

then my academic results dropped. And it took a while for me to get back on track. And I ended up studying engineering. Sorry? How did you get back on track? So it took a while for me to just figure out what I wanted to do. Engineering was, when I realized I couldn't get into medical school here, very competitive. And the number of places are regulated in the UK.

So there's a limit on how many places that can be. Engineering, on the other hand, is not. And

So there's a limit on how many places that can be. Engineering, on the other hand, is not. And

So there's a limit on how many places that can be. Engineering, on the other hand, is not. And

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

the society that i grew up in had four magic courses there was medicine engineering law and accounting and if you you know that you were almost judged if you didn't do one of those four things so i thought well i can't do medicine i'm you know good at maths i like computers a lot by then i was already coding i'd been coding since i was seven years old my dad got me a zx81 and then a spectrum plus two so all of these things just the exposure to those sorts of things helped me so i went uh

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people

onto a course for systems engineering and i just kept reading and i took a year off to work because i needed to save up money for university and i met a lot of kids uh during my apprenticeship i worked as an apprentice engineer i met a lot of other people who were going to oxford and cambridge and they had more of the sort of culture that i had grown up with so hanging out with people