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Kemi Badenoch is reshuffling her shadiness furniture contiguous - and erstwhile overseas caput Sir James Cleverly is acceptable to instrumentality to the Conservative frontbench.
Ms Badenoch is reorganising her frontbench for the archetypal clip since she became Conservative person - and person of the absorption - successful November 2024.
Politics latest: Who volition beryllium successful Badenoch's caller shadiness cabinet?
She announced Ed Argar is stepping down arsenic shadiness wellness caput pursuing a caller wellness scare and different past year, which helium said "has continued to interaction me".
In his resignation letter, Mr Argar said helium has listened to his doctors and household and concluded helium needed to lighten his workload to implicit his betterment and "fully reconstruct my health" - and hopes helium tin beryllium connected the frontbench again.
A replacement for Mr Argar has not yet been announced.
Sir James, who served arsenic some overseas and location secretary, is understood to beryllium being brought into Ms Badenoch's shadiness furniture successful a "prominent frontbench role", a elder Conservative root said.
However, it is understood helium volition not beryllium made shadiness chancellor, presently Mel Stride's role.
Many thought Sir James would bushed Ms Badenoch to the enactment relation past year, but helium failed to marque the last two.
Last week, asked if helium inactive had enactment ambitions, Sir James said: "I've forced a subject connected myself which is not to leap astatine something."
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