- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has revealed she lost her faith in God after learning about the case of Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl in 2008.
- She explained that the unanswered prayers of Fritzl’s daughter and captive Elisabeth Fritzl, contrasted with her own trivial prayers being answered, caused her to question her belief.
- That was a turning point that she described as being “like someone blew out a candle”.
- Despite rejecting God, Ms Badenoch said she had not rejected Christianity and remains a “cultural Christian”.
- She said she wants to “protect certain things because I think the world that we have in the UK is very much built on many Christian values”.
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