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secretary, James Cartlidge is now shadow defence secretary to replace Grant Shapps while former justice secretary has been replaced by Ed Argar in the shadow role.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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