Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be crowned as the new Conservative Party leader on Saturday, as the four-month-long race to replace Rishi Sunak reaches the finish line. The result of the leadership ballot is expected to be announced late in the morning, with the members’ ballot having closed on Thursday.

Kemi Badenoch will go head-to-head with Keir Starmer for the first time since becoming the leader of the Conservative party. Badenoch, the former business secretary, was declared the winner of the Tory leadership election on Saturday, defeating rival Robert Jenrick by 53,806 votes to 41,388.

Kemi Badenoch has made her first major opposition front bench appointments since being named leader of the Conservative party. The North West Essex MP selected ex Treasury minister Laura Trott as her shadow education secretary.