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Kemi Badenoch described Reform UK as “woke” as she again ruled out a deal with Nigel Farage’s party. The Conservative leader told the Political Currency podcast she would make no pact with Reform either before or after the next election. Asked why she would not support an agreement, she said she did not want the public to be “confused about what this Conservative party stands for”. She said: Reform are a woke party, and I know a lot of people don’t understand, the word woke is used to mean many things, a lot of people assume it’s a left-wing thing. But when I talk about woke, I talk about people who, it’s all grievance, it’s victim narratives, people are doing this to us, oppressor narratives, this is the oppressor class.
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Kemi Badenoch described Reform UK as “woke” as she again ruled out a deal with Nigel Farage’s party. The Conservative leader told the Political Currency podcast she would make no pact with Reform either before or after the next election. Asked why she would not support an agreement, she said she did not want the public to be “confused about what this Conservative party stands for”. She said: Reform are a woke party, and I know a lot of people don’t understand, the word woke is used to mean many things, a lot of people assume it’s a left-wing thing. But when I talk about woke, I talk about people who, it’s all grievance, it’s victim narratives, people are doing this to us, oppressor narratives, this is the oppressor class.
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