New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed Priti Patel as her Shadow Foreign Secretary and Mel Stride as her Shadow Chancellor as she begins to assemble her shadow cabinet. Badenoch’s election on Saturday came four months after her predecessor Rishi Sunak announced he was going to step down,

Mel Stride and Dame Priti Patel have been appointed as shadow Chancellor and shadow foreign secretary as new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch assembles her front-bench team. Both Stride and Patel ran against now-Conservative leader Badenoch in the race to replace Rishi Sunak following the July 4 election.

Priti Patel has made a comeback as Kemi Badenoch has appointed her shadow foreign secretary, Sky News understands.Ms Badenoch, who beat Robert Jenrick to become Conservative leader on Saturday, started officially appointing her shadow cabinet on Sunday evening.