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Cameron and Holden resign as Sunak announces shadow cabinet

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Richard Holden has resigned from his role as Conservative party chairman. The news comes as the Tory party has announced its shadow cabinet reshuffle – after it won just over 120 seats in Thursday’s election. 

Despite holding onto the safe seat he was parachuted into just days before the nomination deadline, Holden has left his chairman role – with Richard Fuller take the post in the meantime. In a candid admission, Fuller said that the party has had had ‘a difficult election’, adding: ‘We should also challenge ourselves candidly and deeply on the strengths of the Conservative party across the country and outline where improvements can be made.’ You can say that again…

The move accompanies the news that Lord Cameron has resigned from the Conservative frontbench, with the former foreign secretary having being replaced in his shadow role by his deputy Andrew Mitchell. 

In other developments, Kemi Badenoch has become shadow levelling up secretary, James Cartlidge is now shadow defence secretary to replace Grant Shapps while former justice secretary has been replaced by Ed Argar in the shadow role. Andrew Griffith is now the shadow science secretary and Julia Lopez has been given the shadow culture brief after Lucy Frazer was ditched. And Scottish Tory MP Andrew Bowie has taken the shadow veterans minister role from Johnny Mercer. 

Read the full list here:

Oliver Dowden – shadow deputy prime minister and shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Jeremy Hunt – shadow chancellor

Andrew Mitchell – shadow foreign secretary

James Cleverly – shadow home secretary

James Cartlidge – shadow defence secretary

Ed Argar – shadow justice secretary

Andrew Griffith – shadow science secretary

Victoria Atkins – shadow health secretary

Kemi Badenoch – shadow levelling up secretary

Steve Barclay – shadow environment secretary

Chris Philp – shadow leader of the House of Commons

Lord True – shadow leader of the House of Lords

Kevin Hollinrake – shadow business secretary

Claire Coutinho – shadow energy secretary

Mel Stride – shadow work and pensions secretary

Damian Hinds – shadow education secretary

Helen Whately – shadow transport secretary

Julia Lopez – shadow culture secretary

Jeremy Wright – shadow attorney general

Alex Burghart – shadow Northern Ireland secretary

John Lamont – shadow Scotland secretary

Lord Davies – shadow Wales secretary

Stuart Andrew – opposition chief whip

Laura Trott – shadow chief secretary to the Treasury

John Glen – shadow paymaster general

Tom Tugendhat – shadow security minister

Andrew Bowie – shadow veterans minister

Mims Davies – shadow women and equalities minister

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