{"id":144276,"date":"2026-02-24T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:03:14","slug":"farage-has-taken-drama-queens-from-the-tory-party-says-badenoch-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144276\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage has taken \u2018drama queens\u2019 from the Tory party, says Badenoch | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nigel-farage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a> has helped clear out \u201cdrama queens\u201d from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tory-party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tory party<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kemi-badenoch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kemi Badenoch<\/a> has told The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>As of February 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/bbc-question-time-reform-tories-care-home-b2911152.html\" title=\"Question Time audience erupts as Reform UK branded \u2018care home for old Tories\u2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several high-profile former Conservative MPs have made the move <\/a>to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/reform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reform<\/a> UK, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Whitehall editor Kate Devlin about the string of defections, Ms Badenoch joked that Mr Farage was \u201cdoing my spring cleaning for me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people don\u2019t want to be in the Conservative party because they don\u2019t like the policy, I understand. If they want to leave because they\u2019re drama queens and they want to go to the place where the other drama queens are congregating, that\u2019s absolutely fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage has helped clear out \u201cdrama queens\u201d from the Tory party, Kemi Badenoch has told The Independent.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-144276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}