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Badenoch attempts united top team
Newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, leaves party headquarters in Matthew Parker St, central London. Picture date: Monday November 4, 2024
NEW Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has finalised her top team, seeking to unite her disputatious party around her new shadow cabinet.
Big winners from her reshuffle include new shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel, a fervent supporter of Israel who was regarded as extreme when she was home secretary in the last government until being replaced by Suella Braverman.
Shadow chancellor Mel Stride’s appointment was seen as a win for Conservative centrism, although since he is on record, like Ms Badenoch, as attacking maternity rights, it underlines that this is a very relative description.
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