Kemi Badenoch reveals full shadow cabinet including Chris Philp as shadow home secretary – UK politics live

Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is chairing her first meeting of the shadow cabinet as leader this morning. We had been expecting to find out who will actually be turning up at some point yesterday, but the full list of shadow cabinet appointments has not been published yet (operating for the convenience of the media has never been a Badenoch priority – fair enough) and the list is due soon.

This is what we knew by the end of play yesterday.

Steven Swinford from the Times claims Badenoch was angry about his revelation yesterday that Robert Jenrick will be the new shadow justice secretary.

Kemi Badenoch was left infuriated after The Times disclosed that she had appointed Robert Jenrick as her shadow justice secretary yesterday

Badenoch had wanted to announce Jenrick’s appointment today so the appointments of Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor would take the headlines

Nigel Huddleston, the new Conservative co-chair, has been giving interviews this morning, and he told Sky News that the opposition would be able to shadow the government, even though there are more Labour ministers and whips than there are Conservative MPs. Asked if this would be a problem, Huddleston said the party would manage, but that frontbenchers might have to shadow more than one government post at the same time.

We will cover it because we’ve got immense talent in the Conservative party … When I was in government, a couple of times I was both a whip and a minister, and that happens. So, actually, you don’t need quite the number that you might imagine. And we’ve got some very competent people who can often do two jobs.

Huddleston also said that he did not know who all the members of the new shadow cabinet would be.

Here is the agenda for the day.

9am: Kemi Badenoch is due to publish the names of people sitting in her new shadow cabinet.

9.30am: Keir Starmer chairs cabinet.

10am: Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, and two of his colleagues give evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the budget. At 2pm Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Mike Brewer, interim chief executive at the Resolution Foundation, are giving evidence.

10am: Kemi Badenoch chairs a meeting of her new shadow cabinet.

11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.

11.30am: Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, takes questions in the Commons. Robert Jenrick will be responding for the Tories in his new role as shadow justice secretary.

2.30pm: Sir Alan Bates, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, gives evidence to the Commons business committee about the redress system for people affected by the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Also, the government’s tobacco and vapes bill is being published today.

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