Kemi Badenoch enthused about the pro-women stance taken by the Harry Potter author.
Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has pledged to offer JK Rowling a peerage praising her 'fight' on gender rights.Asked whether she would give the former Labour supporter a peerage, Ms Badenoch told Talk TV: 'I would. I don't know whether she would take it. I certainly would give her a peerage.'
Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has pledged to offer JK Rowling a peerage praising her 'fight' on gender rightsMs Badenoch said that she had 'managed' to get Dr Cass peerage so she could be 'a strong voice in Parliament'. Her review, published in April, found care had been directed by 'ideology on all sides' and was based on 'remarkably weak evidence'.
In her TalkTV interview, Ms Badenoch accused some Tory leadership candidates of 'throwing mud', agreeing that the campaign had been 'dirty'.
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