{"id":144335,"date":"2026-02-25T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144335\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:04:17","slug":"farage-has-helped-clean-drama-queens-out-of-the-tory-party-says-badenoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144335\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage has helped clean \u2018drama queens\u2019 out of the Tory party, says Badenoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, February 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a643dfff67ab7c591c098e68c765a6b1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nigel-farage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nigel Farage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tory party;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Tory party<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kemi-badenoch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kemi Badenoch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Kemi Badenoch<\/a> has told The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>As of February 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/time-audience-member-reform-uk-232101455.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:several high-profile former Conservative MPs have made the move;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reform;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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":"Tue, February 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC Nigel Farage has helped clear out \u201cdrama queens\u201d from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[60568,60567,60569,51043,9,24,51044,63,122,124,123,51045,51046,60566],"class_list":["post-144335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-conservative-mps","tag-drama-queens","tag-kate-devlin","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nigel-farage","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-suella-braverman","tag-tory-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144335","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=144335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}