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New Tory leader reportedly angry that media disclosed Robert Jenrick to be appointed shadow justice secretary
Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is chairing her first meeting of the shadow cabinet as leader this morning. We had been expecting to find out who will actually be turning up at some point yesterday, but the full list of shadow cabinet appointments has not been published yet (operating for the convenience of the media has never been a Badenoch priority – fair enough) and the list is due soon.
This is what we knew by the end of play yesterday.
Kemi Badenoch was left infuriated after The Times disclosed that she had appointed Robert Jenrick as her shadow justice secretary yesterday
Badenoch had wanted to announce Jenrick’s appointment today so the appointments of Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor would take the headlines
We will cover it because we’ve got immense talent in the Conservative party … When I was in government, a couple of times I was both a whip and a minister, and that happens. So, actually, you don’t need quite the number that you might imagine. And we’ve got some very competent people who can often do two jobs.
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