When Nigeria’s economy collapsed in the 1990s, Ms Badenoch<\/a><\/strong>, then aged 16, moved back to the UK to live with a family friend and continue her education.<\/p>\n Speaking to former MP and television presenter Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, Ms Badenoch said as most of her life has been in the UK, she “does not identify” as Nigerian.<\/p>\n “I’m Nigerian through ancestry, by birth, despite not being born there because of my parents… but by identity I’m not really,” the North West Essex MP said.<\/p>\n “I have not renewed my Nigerian passport, I think, not since the early 2000s.”<\/p>\n Image: Ms Badenoch added that her home is now where her family is, which includes her extended political family.<\/p>\n On Nigeria, she said: “I know the country very well, I have a lot of family there, and I’m very interested in what happens there.”<\/p>\n “But home is where my now family is, and my now family is my children, it’s my husband and my brother and his children, in-laws. The Conservative Party is very much part of my family – my extended family, I call it,” she added.<\/p>\n Ms Badenoch said on her return to Nigeria after her father, Femi, who was a GP with his own clinic, died, she faced a “big fandango” to get a visa.<\/p>\n She also said her early experiences in Nigeria shaped her political outlook, including why she doesn’t like socialism.<\/p>\n “I remember never quite feeling that I belonged there,” she added.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News:![\"Conservative](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skynews-kemi-badenoch-conservative_6970030.jpg\")
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\n Badenoch talking to members of the media on a recent visit to the Royal Welsh Show. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
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