Badenoch, who earlier this year was a contender in a
Conservative Party leadership contest to replace then Prime Minister Boris
Johnson, backed Sunak in the most recent race to replace outgoing leader, Liz
Truss.
Badenoch, MP for Saffron Walden, came fourth in the Tory
leadership contest this summer.
She has been outspoken on issues such as gender-neutral
toilets – which she opposes – and stood on an “anti-woke” platform in the Tory
contest.
She also argued that the state needed to be slimmed down.
The former software engineer worked in banking and later as
a director of the Spectator magazine before being elected to the London
Assembly.
She entered the Commons as MP for Saffron Walden in 2017,
and lists her interests as including engineering and technology, social
mobility and integration.