Reform UK Hit By Humiliating X Community Note Over Badenoch Chess Champion Claims

The party wrongly accused the Tory leader of exaggerating her achievements.

Reform UK have been left red-faced after wrongly accusing Kemi Badenoch of claiming she was Nigeria’s national chess champion when she was just seven years old.

The right-wing party made the claim in a video posted on X on the eve of the Conservative conference in Birmingham.

It said: “Kemi Badenoch said she was Nigeria’s national chess champion at age 7. So we sent a reporter to Nigeria to find out the truth. She lied.”

However, the party was........

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