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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Kemi badenoch appoints mel stride and priti patel to shadow cabinet | History Defined

Mel Stride and Priti Patel
Mel Stride becomes shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary. Photograph: UK Parliament

Kemi Badenoch has appointed Robert Jenrick shadow justice secretary, with Mel Stride shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary, as she began to put together a frontbench team billed as uniting the Conservatives.

There were, however, questions about whether Jenrick had initially sought another post, in a sign of potential tensions between the final two candidates to replace Rishi Sunak.

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