King Charles Greets Kemi Badenoch Reviving Royal Tradition | Royal | News | EUROtoday

Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch has held a one-to-one viewers with the King – reviving an outdated conference of the monarch assembly with the brand new chief of the Opposition.

Charles welcomed Mrs Badenoch within the grand 1844 Room of Buckingham Palace on Monday morning for the one-off assembly.

Mrs Badenoch, who was elected Tory chief in November, was pictured grinning because the smiling King gestured and held his arms out huge in the beginning of their half-hour assembly.

She is claimed to be the primary opposition chief to have a proper one-to-one viewers with a monarch in 19 years.

A royal supply stated: “It was a convention that fell by the way in latter years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s reign and seemed a courtesy to revive in the new reign.”

The custom lapsed throughout Labour’s years in opposition because the late Queen grew to become older.

The final Opposition chief to be welcomed in a proper viewers within the months after their appointment was David Cameron, when he met with the late Queen in 2006.

Mrs Badenoch, the North West Essex MP and former commerce secretary, changed Rishi Sunak within the wake of the occasion’s disastrous defeat in the summertime common election.

Known for her forthright views on points akin to gender id and institutional racism, Mrs Badenoch has described herself as a “sceptic” of web zero and is thought for her anti-woke values.

She is the primary black girl to steer a significant UK political occasion.

The King and Mrs Badenoch have met a number of occasions earlier than, most lately at Charles’s post-election reception for MPs on the palace final week, and in addition in June 2023 at a King’s Award for Enterprise reception, when Mrs Badenoch was commerce secretary.

Sir Keir Starmer met with Charles two days after Elizabeth II died however the viewers with the Labour chief was a joint one with different opposition leaders and a part of the deliberate schedule of conferences within the aftermath of the Queen’s demise.

The King holds a non-public weekly viewers with the Prime Minister every Wednesday to debate Government issues following Prime Minister’s Questions, with the dialog normally going down face-to-face.

Although the King should stay politically impartial on all issues, he is ready to advise and warn his ministers – together with his prime minister – when needed.