Britain's Conservative Party picks Kemi Badenoch as leader after crushing election defeat

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

The first Black woman to lead a major British political party, Badenoch (pronounced BADE-enock) defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the right-of-center Conservatives.

She got 53,806 votes in the online and postal ballot of party members, to Jenrick's 41,388.