In approximately 12 hours, all UK news will take a back seat as the world looks to the United States and the election of a new American president. Until then, the new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is trying to drum up as much momentum as possible following her election on Saturday.
This morning, Badenoch met with her shadow cabinet, after spending Monday making appointments to her top team. It wouldn’t really be a shadow cabinet reshuffle without something going not to plan. In that vein, there was some confusion last night when Jenrick allies announced that he was the new shadow justice secretary – only for the Badenoch camp to offer no confirmation.
Has Badenoch done enough to reach out across the party?
That confirmation came this morning along with a raft of other appointments (see the full guide on Coffee House). Badenoch has put two of her leadership rivals in shadow great offices of state – Mel Stride as shadow chancellor and Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary.
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