Portrait of the week: Trump’s victory, Kemi’s shadow cabinet and footballer killed by lightning

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Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative party, appointed a shadow cabinet. She made Robert Jenrick, whom she beat for the leadership, shadow justice secretary; Dame Priti Patel, shadow foreign secretary; Chris Philp, shadow home secretary; Mel Stride, shadow chancellor. Alex Burghart was given Northern Ireland and the Cabinet Office, with Laura Trott at education, Edward Argar at health and James Cartlidge at defence. Badenoch had been elected leader by 56.5 per cent of the 95,194 members’ votes (compared with the 57.4 per cent for Liz Truss in 2022), in a turnout of 72.8 per cent (compared with the 82.2 per cent in 2022). The Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford returned to Borneo a sun hat acquired in 1923 from the Brooke family, who ruled Sarawak. Sir Henry Keswick, the Jardine Matheson businessman who owned The Spectator from 1975 to 1981, died, aged 86.

Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, lifted the cap on university fees for the first time in eight years by £285 to £9,535 next year, an increase of about 3.1 per cent. Maintenance loans for students in England will rise by the same percentage. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker, asked for a ‘full inquiry’ into how details were reported in the press before the Commons was told. Farmers were enraged by the Budget making inheritance tax payable on estates worth more than £1 million. GPs complained at their businesses having to pay increased employers’ national insurance. The government conceded that people could smoke in pub gardens and outside shisha bars but pressed ahead with a law against anyone now 15 or under ever buying cigarettes. An unpleasant and mysterious smell afflicted Leeds City bus station.