Dame Priti was appointed to Badenoch’s shadow cabinet after finishing sixth in the leadership election, and previously held senior roles in successive Tory governments, including a three-year spell as home secretary under Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n
Announcing her departure in a statement on X, she wrote: “It has been an honour to lead the Party’s foreign affairs team in Parliament over the last two years.<\/p>\n
“I’m pleased to continue supporting Kemi and the Conservative Party in a new role strengthening our relationships with fellow conservatives and centre right parties around the world.”<\/p>\n
She said she would continue to serve as the MP for Witham in Essex.<\/p>\n
A Conservative reshuffle had already been expected in the coming weeks because of the shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho’s upcoming maternity leave.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, people within the party have played down speculation that the shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride could also lose his job in the changes.<\/p>\n
But some sources within the party still believe Badenoch could choose to replace him.<\/p>\n
Many within the Conservative Party view Coutinho as a likely future shadow chancellor. The shadow energy secretary is said to have impressed colleagues with her performances in Parliament and the media.<\/p>\n
But it is unlikely Badenoch will move to appoint her as shadow chancellor while she is on leave from the front bench.<\/p>\n
The Conservative leader will also need to replace Sir James as her shadow housing secretary after he quit the front bench to focus on setting up a campaign to run for London mayor.<\/p>\n
He has not yet been selected as the party’s candidate for the May 2028 election, nor has he resigned as the MP for Braintree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dame Priti was appointed to Badenoch’s shadow cabinet after finishing sixth in the leadership election, and previously held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}