Britain’s opposition Conservative Party elects new leader

Britain’s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat in July that ended its 14 years in power.

She defeated fellow right winger, Robert Jenrick, in a vote of the almost 100,000 members of the right-of-centre party, becoming the first Black woman to head a major British political party.

Badenoch, who was born in London of Nigerian parents and spent most…