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New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has revealed the 24 members of her shadow cabinet, with some of her former leadership rivals handed top gigs. Dame Priti Patel was named as her Shadow Foreign Secretary,

Robert Jenrick has accepted the role of shadow justice secretary in his former leadership rival Kemi Badenoch’s senior team, the PA news agency understands.The new Tory leader has also chosen Dame Priti Patel as her shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as her shadow chancellor.

Mims Davies has been named as the shadow Welsh secretary by new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. The Tory MP for East Grinstead and Uckfield, in the southeast of England, replaces former Conservative MP Lord Davies of Gower and said she was "delighted" to take up the role.

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.

At the start of the weekend there was an outburst of rejoicing among Tory activists - not something they have been accustomed to in recent years. A single opinion poll suggested the Conservatives are now in the lead.