Badenoch Appoints Shadow Cabinet in Attempt to Rebuild Conservative Party

Published on November 5, 2024

New Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed most of those who stood against her in the leadership race to her shadow Cabinet. Badenoch said appointments to her top team are “based on meritocracy and with a breadth of experience and perspective” as she attempts to rebuild a party riven by infighting following a disastrous general election defeat. She has appointed the relatively unknown former policing minister Chris Philp as shadow home secretary, replacing leadership rival James Cleverly, who had ruled himself out of a senior frontbench role. Familiar Faces Return Dame Priti Patel, another leadership contender and a former home secretary, will take on the role of shadow foreign secretary....

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