Mel Stride has been made shadow chancellor by the new Conservative leader as she announces her new shadow cabinet.

Dame Priti Patel has been appointed shadow foreign secretary, despite having been fired from Baroness May’s Cabinet over holding secret meetings with Israeli politicians. She was given the shadow cabinet role on Monday by Kemi Badenoch,

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,