Kemi Badenoch has flown to the US to “renew” her links to the Republican party ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration next month.The Conservative leader will deliver a speech setting out her “strong centre-Right principles” at a think tank in Washington that was co-founded by Margaret Thatcher.

Kemi Badenoch has flown to Washington DC to build relations with the Republican Party. She will hold meetings with Republicans on Capitol Hill, but it is unclear whether she will meet with president-elect Donald Trump or his top advisers. Politics latest: Starmer comes under attack over 'convicted fraudster' ex-minister

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch endured a humiliating PMQs this afternoon, after her latest attacks on the Labour government backfired. Badenoch used the recent resignation of former Transport Secretary Louise Haigh to attack the Labour party. Haigh resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence a decade ago.

Kemi Badenoch hit out at Sir Keir Starmer over the first resignation from his Cabinet during a fiery PMQs. Louise Haigh stood down as transport secretary last Friday after it emerged she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.

Kemi Badenoch asked Keir Starmer why he 'knowingly appointed a convicted fraudster' to Cabinet after it emerged that Louise Haigh had pleaded guilty to a fraud offence in 2014