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Kemi Badenoch will announce her shadow cabinet within days, as she begins her term as leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party.
The new Tory leader is understood to want her top team in place by Tuesday, when the shadow cabinet is scheduled to meet for the first time since her election.
During the campaign, she suggested she would be open to offering roles to all five of her leadership rivals, although former home secretary James Cleverly has already announced his intention to return to the backbenches.
Other senior Tories to return to the backbenches include Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor, and Badenoch’s predecessor as leader, Rishi Sunak.
But Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, Mel Stride, and Dame Priti Patel appear to still be open to offers of frontbench jobs.
Among Badenoch’s public backers, former Treasury minister Andrew Griffith has been widely tipped as a possible shadow chancellor.
Badenoch became the first black woman to lead a major European political party on Saturday when she defeated Jenrick by 53,806 votes to 41,388.

Her initial shadow cabinet selections may also indicate the direction in which she intends to take the party, with several commentators suggesting her election heralds a shift to the right as the Tories try to recover votes lost to Reform UK.
In her victory speech on Saturday, she acknowledged that her party had a “huge job” ahead of it, and needed to be “honest” about where it had “made mistakes”.
She said: “The time has come to tell the truth, to stand up for our principles, to plan for our future, to reset our politics and our thinking, and to give our party, and our country, the new start that they deserve.”
Later, she told the Sunday Telegraph that the Labour government would “fail because they are repeating many of our mistakes and are doubling down on this broken system”.
She added: “It is now the job of the Conservatives to hold them to account and begin the work of renewal.”


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UK’s new Conservative Party leader to name shadow cabinet in days

Kemi Badenoch gives a speech after becoming the new leader of the Conservative party on Saturday, November 2, in London. Photo: TNS

New leader of Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch is congratulated by beaten candidate Robert Jenrick and after Badenoch was announced as their new leader. Photo: AFP

Badenoch elected new leader of UK Conservative Party

New Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch (centre) and her husband Hamish (right) and Conservative Party leader candidate Robert Jenrick (left) following the party’s new leader announcement in London, Britain, on Saturday. Badenoch succeeds Rishi Sunak. Photo: EPA-EFE

Leader of the political party Reform UK Nigel Farage speaks at a press conference in London on October 7. Photo: EPE/EFE

UK woman admits ‘milkshaking’ Nigel Farage during election campaign

Victoria Thomas Bowen throws a milkshake in Nigel Farage’s face on June 4. Photo: AFP

Nigel Farage after the June 4 milkshake attack. File photo: EPA-EFE

Nigel Farage also sustained another ‘milkshaking’ during the 2019 European election. File photo: AP

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Kemi Badenoch has signalled her willingness to work with leadership rivals and pledged to hold the ruling Labour Party to account


Kemi Badenoch has signalled her willingness to work with leadership rivals and pledged to hold the ruling Labour Party to account.


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