Quotes from Kemi Badenoch

What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts. We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do this with capitalism.

Normalising the term 'white privilege' does not eliminate racism, it reinforces the notion that everyone and everything around ethnic minorities is racist and makes the majority white population more conscious about their race and exacerbates feelings of difference, creating a less cohesive society.

I was lucky. I got university degrees and had a successful tech and finance career. But many of my generation weren't.

I have already sent advice to candidates and what I have said was 'be aware that your social media profile is now fair game, you can't expect people not to take it into account. Think about what you say and how you say it when you use social media.'

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.

Our history is our own; it's not America's. Too often, those who campaign against racial inequality import wholesale a narrative and assumptions that have nothing to do with this country's history and have no place on these islands.

Everyone in public life should judge ideas on the quality of their contents, not the identity of their proponents. Doing so is the only truly fair way of doing things.

Labour has lots of groups of people, whether it's public sector workers, nurses and so on who will push their policies out for them. The right-wing equivalent, whether it's businesses, the Church etc, don't say anything. They all hide behind Conservative politicians.

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

Free speech is never out of the news.

I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would wish on anyone.

Before any decision is made on proposals for ending conversion therapy we must understand the problem, the range of options available and the impact they would have.

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

We take every single allegation of Islamophobia seriously and where we do find party members or people who hold positions in local government doing things we suspend them, we investigate thoroughly.

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

My children are mixed race. I want them to think: 'This is our country, our father's family has been here for thousands of years.'

Neave demonstrated that social reform is not a battle between the haves and the have-nots. It is about how change can only come about when both sides work together to achieve a common goal.

I want people to realise we're not just stuffy aristocrats and Old Etonians. There are black Tories and lots of middle and working-class people of different skin colour who are Conservatives.

To be honest, I think Black History Month, it's become much bigger than it used to be because a lot of people are doing different things, different things with it. It's an American import, which hasn't always fitted exactly with what I would call British and Commonwealth history.

We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be more cohesive, we have to be more relaxed about petty incidents and not find insult where none exists.

Friends' was the biggest television series of all time. Everybody loved it, it was syndicated all around the world. The idea that in a few years people are talking about it as if it's this horrific series, for me that just doesn't compute.

People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.

The right has to be more than the Tory party.