Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has defended her controversial statement that she became 'working class' after getting a job at McDonald's, despite widespread criticism. Speaking to LBC, Ms. Badenoch insisted that her experience of arriving in the UK with limited resources and having to work to survive defined her as working class.
Kemi Badenoch has doubled down on her claim that she "became working class " when she got a job at McDonald's. Speaking to LBC's Iain Dale, Ms Badenoch said she came to this country "with no money, no friends, no parents".She said at that point in her life she was working class as she "had to work to eat".
She continued: "I grew up in a middle class family but coming here I became working class - my dad gave me his last £100, he said 'you know this is all we have' because all our money was gone and this is one of the things that people don't understand. "That, because I've lived somewhere else and I've seen how things can go wrong, I have a very visceral reaction to bad policy here. I lived in a country where there was hyperinflation.
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