{"id":466378,"date":"2026-03-09T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466378\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:41:19","slug":"uk-conservative-leader-kemi-badenoch-backs-canzuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466378\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch Backs CANZUK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Our four nations have shared strengths in goods, services, and defence. By working more closely together, we can combine these collective strengths to boost our economic growth and our national security,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Griffith, the Shadow Business and Trade Secretary, also added: \u2018Our nations share values, language and history \u2013 who wouldn\u2019t want closer links?\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>The announcement from Kemi Badenoch and the UK Conservative Party comes shortly after the Conservative Party of Canada leader, Pierre Poilievre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canzukinternational.com\/2026\/03\/conservative-party-of-canada-leader-champions-canzuk-partnership.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his endorsement of CANZUK<\/a> at an event in London last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canzukinternational.com\/2026\/03\/public-opinion-shows-strong-support-for-canzuk-alliance.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion survey<\/a> conducted in February also revealed majority support for CANZUK across the four countries, with 72% support in Canada, 68% support in Australia, 75% support in New Zealand, and 70% support in the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>CANZUK International welcomes the endorsement from Kemi Badenoch and the UK Conservative Party, and will continue to work with MPs across the United Kingdom to further support for closer ties between the CANZUK countries.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Our four nations have shared strengths in goods, services, and defence. By working more closely together, we can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}