Calls have been made for Kemi Badenoch to provide specifics about an alleged Stanford offer she claims to have received at 16. Former admissions staff and US academics say the described scenario is impossible, noting Stanford does not offer a pre-med undergraduate course and does not make offers based solely on SATs. Claims of a partial scholarship and offers on exam results alone have also been called impossible. Jon Reider, the admissions officer at the time, said he did not make such an offer. Badenoch maintains she received offers but says she no longer has paperwork from 30 years ago.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have called for Kemi Badenoch to come clean about her claims of an offer from Stanford University at the age of 16, after former admissions staff said she had described an impossible scenario. Labour MP Peter Prinsley has written to the Tory leader saying she should lay out the specifics of how the alleged offer came about, given the doubts cast over her story. The Lib Dem education spokesperson, Munira Wilson, said Badenoch risked undermining trust.
Badenoch doubled down on Monday, telling reporters she had indeed received offers based on her exam results. All I will say is that I remember the very day those letters came to me, it was not just from Stanford, I was 16, I had done very well in my SATs, she said. But this is 30 years ago, I don't have the papers, and what the Guardian is doing is reporting on hearsay rather than talking about what the government is doing.
Admissions staff have also said the Conservative leader's assertion she was offered a place on exam results alone, and to have been offered a partial scholarship, are impossible, with no offers made on that basis. Jon Reider, the admissions officer during the period Badenoch applied, told the Guardian he had been responsible for international admissions and scholarships and had not offered one to Badenoch.
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