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Kemi Badenoch, the newly elected Conservative leader, has begun her appointments for the top positions in her shadow cabinet ahead of the meeting on Tuesday. Badenoch has appointed Laura Trott, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, as the shadow education secretary and Neil O’Brien as the shadow education minister. Meanwhile, Nigel Huddleston and Lord Dominic Johnson have been appointed as joint chairmen of the Conservative party.
Badenoch believes that the Tories could return to government within five years, and their first challenge is to pay attention to local Tories and regain council seats in the local elections in May next year, as told by the BBC. Trott has served as number two in the Treasury under Jeremy Hunt when he was the chancellor and has been working at Sevenoaks since 2019. Neil O’Brien served as a health minister and currently represents Harborough, Oadby, and Wigston. He resigned from Sunak’s government in November 2023 and took a more critical stance on the then-prime minister from the backbenches.
Huddleston, who is a member of parliament for Droitwich and Evesham in the West Midlands, had previously worked under Badenoch when she was business secretary. He worked as a treasury minister in his previous job. Meanwhile, Lord Johnson was appointed as a trade minister by Badenoch. He had a previous spell as a vice-chairman of the party and was appointed to the Lords by Liz Truss when she was the prime minister. Johnson co-founded an investment firm “Somerset Capital Management” with former Conservative MP and minister Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2007, and donated more than £275,000 to the Tories in the last 10 years.
Badenoch is expected to provide a job to her leadership rival, Robert Jenrick, following her victory speech, stating that he had a “key role to play in our party for many years to come”. She has previously mentioned that she would select people from all wings of the party, including a diverse group of MPs with different backgrounds, professional experience, geographic diversity, and work experience before they came to parliament. A formal announcement of the shadow cabinet is expected before its first meeting, and the current Labour government has 120 ministers, meaning the Tories may struggle to shadow all posts, given they only have 121 MPs
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