KEMI Badenoch has been slammed for her comments made during an interview – including claiming that she “became working class” by working in McDonald’s.
The Conservative leadership candidate, 44, appeared on an episode of Chopper’s Political Podcast on GB News yesterday.
She was there to discuss her path to running for Prime Minister in 2022, then party leadership following the 2024 general election, as well as her plans for the party.
However, statements she made about her upbringing and the fact she doesn’t make mistakes were quickly disputed by Brits online.
In a clip of the interview shared to social media, Badenoch can be heard saying to GB News’ political editor Christopher Hope: “I grew up in a middle class family.
“But I became working class when I was 16, working in McDonald’s.”
One social media user was quick to dispute this, pointing out that Badenoch’s father was a GP, and her mother was a professor.
She later claimed: “I never have gaffes, or apologising for something that I said, ‘that’s not what I meant’. I never have to clarify, because I think very carefully about what I say.”
An old interview clip was shared in response, in which she confessed to hacking a Labour MP’s website in 2008 and altered it to “say nice things about [the] Tories”.
She apologised for her prank on MP Harriet Harman in 2018.
The interview clips were shared to social media yesterday with the caption: “‘I grew up in a middle class family. But I became working class when I was working in McDonald’s’ – Conservative party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch.”
The post has since received over 920 likes and more than 620 comments from disgruntled Brits quick to ridicule her.
One commented: “Does she mean that she did a part-time job at Maccy Dees while doing A levels?
“Not sure, if your parents are a GP and a college professor, that this experience makes you ‘working class’.”
A second wrote: “What a crock of s**t. Why is everyone so desperate to be working class?
“I was born to a mechanic and a mum who didn’t work. I’ve done everything I can to improve my lot in life.
“There is no f***ing glory in being poor, only a rich person thinks there is.”
Another said: “You don’t become working class because of where you work. Christ she’s thick.”
A fourth added: “This is along the same lines as her memorable comments on the safety of Rwanda because a friend of hers had a simply marvellous ‘gap yarr’ there.
“We deserve so very much better than her nonsense.”
Another quipped: “And upon cleaning the toilets of Buckingham Palace I’m now seventh in line to the throne.”
