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Kemi Badenoch’s husband Hamish has one factor in widespread with Denis Thatcher – however appears extra like Philip Could

By Editorial Board Published November 2, 2024 6 Min Read
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Kemi Badenoch’s husband Hamish has one factor in widespread with Denis Thatcher – however appears extra like Philip Could

Kemi Badenoch’s husband has one factor in widespread with Sir Denis Thatcher. They each met their spouse whereas they had been Tory activists and their future bride was combating a protected Labour seat.

Hamish Badenoch would often give Kemi a raise in his automotive when she was Tory candidate in opposition to Labour’s Tessa Jowell in Dulwich and West Norwood within the 2010 common election.

And Denis Thatcher famously gave the younger Margaret Roberts a raise residence to London in his sports activities automotive when she was the Tory candidate in Dartford, which she fought within the 1950 and 1951 elections.

However the similarity in all probability ends there. Sir Denis went on to change into a nationwide celeb in his personal proper, satirised in a “Dear Bill” column in Personal Eye and a West Finish play “Anyone for Denis?”

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Margaret Thatcher will get a kiss from Denis after profitable the management marketing campaign in 1975. Pic: AP

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Hamish Badenoch, however, has stored a remarkably low profile, reasonably like one other Tory activist-turned-PM’s partner, Sir Philip Could, who was described by spouse Theresa as her “rock”.

And so, in shunning the limelight – to this point – Mr Badenoch is unquestionably extra Philip Could than Denis Thatcher, although the extrovert and endearingly eccentric Sir Denis was a one-off amongst PM’s spouses.

However one extremely uncommon and notable reality about Hamish Badenoch is that he and Kemi, by a weird coincidence, had been born in the identical hospital, St Teresa’s in Wimbledon, a yr aside.

It was partly this coincidence that led to them putting up a friendship when he was an activist within the Dulwich and West Norwood Tory affiliation. He then grew to become her marketing campaign supervisor.

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“Hamish lived very near Kemi in Herne Hill and because he had a car and Kemi didn’t he volunteered to pick her up and drop her off when we had meetings,” a former affiliation member revealed in Lord Ashcroft’s biography, Blue Ambition.

After head boy at Ampleforth Faculty – the Roman Catholic boarding faculty run by monks – and Cambridge College, Hamish had a various early profession abroad: a journalist in Malawi, a administration seek the advice of in Nigeria and working an Avis automotive rent franchise in Kenya.

After that and returning to London, it was the extra conventional Tory background of Barclays Financial institution and now Deutsche Financial institution.

However like Kemi, he had political ambitions and in 2005, whereas he was a councillor in Merton, south London, he fought the SDLP-held seat of Foyle in Northern Eire for the Conservatives.

Evaluation:Badenoch shall be trying over her shoulder after lower than emphatic victory

 Theresa May with her husband Philip on the day she handed in her resignation to the Queen. Pic: PA

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Theresa Could along with her husband Philip on the day she handed in her resignation to the Queen. Pic: PA

However it did not go properly. Regardless of his Scottish Gaelic surname and boasting of Irish roots – his mom was born within the Republic of Eire – he got here seventh out of seven candidates and polled simply 132 votes and misplaced his deposit. It was the one and solely time he stood for parliament.

In 2016, the couple had been on totally different sides within the EU referendum: she was pro-Brexit, he campaigned for Stay. Lord Ashcroft quoted a buddy describing him as a “Cameron centrist”.

Lord Ashcroft quoted one other buddy declaring: “Anyone who claims she doesn’t understand the One Nation wing of the party is reminded that she wakes up beside a Remainer every morning.”

On Kemi standing for the Tory management, a buddy advised Lord Ashcroft: “Hamish and she are like a team. He put her career ahead of his own. If he said to her that he didn’t think her being leader would work for the family, she wouldn’t do it.”

Effectively, she did it and she or he’s accomplished it. And when she thanked him in her victory speech and mentioned she could not have accomplished it “without you being with me every step of the way”, the MPs and activists within the room cheered loudly.

Hamish Badenoch could have shunned the limelight till now. However now he is been thrust proper into it. Even when he is hoping to be extra Philip Could than Denis Thatcher.

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