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Sir Mel Stride replaced as shadow chancellor as Conservatives reshuffle top team
Badenoch says Griffith’s business background will help shape a new economic team focused on growth and fiscal credibility.
- On Monday, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch launched a major shadow cabinet reshuffle, replacing shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride with Andrew Griffith to address performance concerns ahead of the October conference.
- Badenoch initiated these changes to create a new economic leadership team focused on fiscal credibility and growth, with the newly formed Conservative Economic Unit driving future business policies.
- On Sunday, Tom Tugendhat replaced Dame Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary; Claire Coutinho will serve as deputy to Griffith and shadow business secretary, while Richard Fuller will oversee fiscal discipline.
- Separately, Sir James Cleverly announced on Saturday he will step down as shadow housing secretary to pursue the Tory candidacy for London mayor, joining Stride and Patel on the back benches.
- Stride stated the Conservative Party must "champion an approach which is both radical and deliverable," expressing confidence that the party's narrative will grow stronger under Badenoch's leadership.
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Kemi Badenoch’s appoints new shadow cabinet: who’s in and who’s out
Kemi Badenoch has overhauled her shadow cabinet with a series of new appointments. The Conservative leader reshuffled her top team after James Cleverly, the former housing secretary, stood down from the party’s frontbench in order to announce his campaign to stand as mayor of London. Among the casualties of Badenoch’s reshuffle were Mel Stride, the... Read more » The post Kemi Badenoch’s appoints new shadow cabinet: who’s in and who’s out appea…
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