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Kemi Badenoch claimed her favourite Beatles song is Yellow Submarine, and the internet gave her a hard day’s night – 15 hit responses

Oonagh Keating. Updated January 27th, 2025

Laura Kuenssberg attracts some big names to her Sunday morning political discussion show, including prime ministers, but yesterday (at the time of writing), she had a really big name on – Sir Paul McCartney.

The former Beatle, still writing and performing at the age of 82, discussed the danger A.I. poses to the arts – calling on the Government to address it as they consider a change of copyright law.

At the start of the show, Laura Kuenssberg gave her two main political guests, Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch, a chance to share their favourite Beatles song.

There’s no reason why Kemi Badenoch, born in 1980 and largely raised outside of the U.K., should have a favourite Beatles song, but it’s okay to say that – rather than do what we suspect she did and just say the first one she could think of.

Unfortunately for her, she made her choice and she’s going to have to carry that weight, because the internet wasn’t buying it, and before any time at all had passed, she was dragged into next week.

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James O’Brien felt for her.

Maybe she identifies with the Blue Meanies. Who knows?

We suspect that won’t be the end of the matter.

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