Kemi Badenoch hands peerage to £2,500 donor she'd already given a plum job
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Kemi Badenoch handed a peerage to a key donors in her first honours list. Joanne Cash gave £2,500 to Ms Badenoch to help fund her first leadership campaign in 2022. Last year, when Ms Badenoch was Business Secretary, she was criticised for giving Ms Cash a job as a commissioner to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - without declaring a political interest in her appointment.
Ms Cash married to MindGym co-founder, Octavius Black, a former school friend of David Cameron. She made the donation under her married name, Joanne Black. Ms Cash stood unsuccessfully to be a Tory MP in 2010, losing the election to former Labour MP Karen Buck.
Ms Badenoch's first honours list also included self-styled free speech champion and professional provocateur Toby Young, despite a long history of sexist and homophobic comments. BLUESKY: Follow our Mirror Politics account on Bluesky here. And follow our Mirror Politics team here - Lizzy Buchan, Jason Beattie, Kevin Maguire, Sophie Huskisson, Dave Burke, Ashley Cowburn, Mikey Smith.
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