Kemi Badenoch has started to appoint her shadow cabinet, with the promise that a full or near-full top team will be in place by Tuesday morning. Here are the people handed jobs so far. Mel Stride After much jockeying for the job of shadow chancellor, and predictions the role would go to key Badenoch supporter Andrew Griffith, the new Tory leader has chosen a relative centrist whom most in the party will see as a safe pair of hands. Stride, an MP since 2010, did about as well as he could have expected in standing to replace Rishi Sunak, raising his profile before being eliminated in the second round of MPs’ voting. A former Treasury minister and chair of the Treasury select committee, Stride had been work and pensions secretary under Sunak and kept the job in opposition. While he is less prone than his new boss to making headlines with his comments, it emerged during the Conservative conference that in 2012 Stride had called for looser rules on maternity rights to boost business. Priti Patel While other Tory big beasts such as Jeremy Hunt and James Cleverly have seen the dawn of the Badenoch era as a signal to return to the backbenches, Patel receives reward for her enthusiastic if slightly unfocused leadership bid, in which she was the first of six candidates eliminated, with the post of shadow foreign secretary. An MP since 2010, with a decade of frontbench experience, Patel certainly has the experience for the job. Some in the party will nonetheless see the appointment as a risk, given Patel can at times rival Badenoch for combustibility and chaos. Patel’s first cabinet job, as international development secretary, ended in disaster when it emerged that she had essentially been conducting her own freelance foreign policy while on holiday in Israel. She was forced to resign. Her return to the cabinet, as Boris Johnson’s home secretary, would also have ended in her unceremonious removal if he had not decided to ignore the opinion of his ethics adviser and keep her in post despite a formal investigation finding evidence that she bullied civil servants. Robert Jenrick Is the role of shadow justice secretary a snub for the rival Badenoch defeated in the vote of Tory members? Or a noble olive branch after a bruising contest? Expect both views to be aired in briefings but, regardless, it gives a voice to the man who has reinvented himself as a leading voice of the Tory right. A former corporate solicitor, Jenrick began his career as a largely on-message centrist, nicknamed “Robert Generic”, and moved through the ranks to become housing minister. His first brush with controversy came when he lost the job after becoming embroiled in a scandal about planning-related conflicts of interest. His move to the party’s right seemingly began when he was immigration minister for Sunak, a post from which he resigned over what he saw as an over-liberal approach. As a leadership contender he positioned himself firmly on the populist and nativist-adjacent right, calling for near-zero net migration to the UK and linking immigration to crime. Laura Trott An early and voluble Badenoch backer – she has likened the new leader to Margaret Thatcher – Trott has been rewarded with the shadow education post, just in time to respond in the Commons to the government’s announcement of an increase in university tuition fees. A former political adviser who worked in No 10 under David Cameron, Trott entered the Commons in 2019 via the ultra-safe Sevenoaks constituency, and rose through the frontbench ranks to serve as chief secretary to the Treasury under Sunak, which saw her attend cabinet. Trott is viewed as a more centrist Tory. She held a very junior post under Boris Johnson before joining the wave of resignations from his crumbling government. She then backed Sunak to be leader. Rebecca Harris The first appointment to emerge – after her predecessor as chief whip, Stuart Andrew, tweeted his congratulations on Sunday afternoon – Harris is a longstanding MP and a veteran of the whips’ office but largely unknown outside parliament. Formerly a publishing industry executive, she has represented the Essex constituency of Castle Point since 2010 and has been a whip of varying seniority for seven years. She now has the tricky task of keeping the Conservatives’ 121 MPs, only a third of whom voted for Badenoch, in line. Nigel Huddleston A committed Badenoch supporter, and MP for Droitwich and Evesham – formerly Mid Worcestershire – since 2015, Huddleston moves from being number three in the shadow Treasury team to become party co-chair. As a former remain backer, and a patron of the centrist Tory Reform Group, one of his tasks will be to reassure more moderate Conservative MPs and members that Badenoch’s party is a broad church. Dominic Johnson The other co-chair, Johnson is a wealthy financier and Tory party donor who, in contrast with Huddleston, is more closely linked to the right of the party. Johnson co-founded the now defunct Somerset Capital Management with Jacob Rees-Mogg, and was made a peer by Liz Truss so he could serve as a minister in her government – which then collapsed about three weeks later. Rishi Sunak, however, kept Johnson in his post.