{"id":471483,"date":"2025-10-03T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471483\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:15:26","slug":"kemi-badenoch-makes-embarrassing-brexit-gaffe-despite-claiming-she-never-makes-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471483\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch makes embarrassing Brexit gaffe despite claiming she never makes gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch claimed in a TV interview that Northern Ireland voted to leave the EU – even though the nation actually backed remain by a majority of 56% to 44%<\/p>\n

11:20, 03 Oct 2025Updated 12:18, 03 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

Kemi Badenoch made a huge Brexit blunder during a TV interview – raising questions about her claim that she never makes gaffes.<\/p>\n

The under-pressure Tory leader mistakenly claimed that Northern Ireland voted to leave the EU during an interview with BBC<\/a> News NI. She told the broadcaster: “The last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for her, the nation did vote to remain in the EU back in 2016 – by a majority of 56% to 44%. When the error was pointed out she said: “I do recognise the people of Northern Ireland voted to remain and we came up with a settlement – it wasn’t perfect, but it tried to make sure we had a way of Northern Ireland getting the best of both worlds.”<\/p>\n

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And when she was pressed later, Ms Badenoch said: “Scotland<\/a> voted to remain, a lot of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain, you’re right – but Wales and England voted to leave, the UK as a whole voted to leave.”<\/p>\n

It comes ahead of the annual Conservative Party<\/a> Conference in Manchester<\/a>, which starts on Sunday. Pressure is mounting on her after a difficult year which has seen Nigel Farage’s Reform steal a march among right wing voters.<\/p>\n

After the gaffe, many took to social media to share a clip from December last year, in which the Tory leader told GB News: “I know how certain things might sound if they’re not said properly. So I never have gaffes or apologise for something that I said, ‘that’s not what I meant’.<\/p>\n

“I never have to clarify because I think very carefully about what I say, make sure that we don’t sound shrill, that we don’t sound like the bad guys.”<\/p>\n

Polling from YouGov found one in five (21%) voters think it\u2019s likely that the Tories will no longer be a major force in 10 years\u2019 time – and nearly half (45%) think Ms Badenoch has done badly as leader.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC, Ms Badenoch denied she was “looking over her shoulder” at Nigel Farage<\/a> following a string of defections. She said: “It’s not Labour<\/a>, and definitely not Reform, only the Conservative Party is going to be good for all four nations of the UK.<\/p>\n

“The party’s under new leadership, I’m not here to talk about what the last Conservative government did, Labour is in power we need to scrutinise what Labour is doing.”<\/p>\n

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