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,

Kemi Badenoch has announced the shadow cabinet – her top team who will be going head to head with Labour’s frontbench in the House of Commons. Among those appointed are some familiar faces as well as some completely unknown Tories.

Rebecca Harris will be the Conservative Party's chief whip in Kemi Badenoch's new shadow cabinet. The MP for Castle Point in Essex — who was first elected in 2010 — will replace Stuart Andrew. The job of chief whip is to maintain party discipline and try to ensure MPs vote as the leadership would like them to.