Author: Andrew Sparrow

Labour chair says most of Badenoch’s team had served under Truss or failed to condemn Johnson for Partygate Tom Tugendhat is one of two Conservative leadership candidates not in the shadow cabinet. The other is James Cleverly, who said publicly last week he did not want a frontbench post. The other four candidates (Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch herself, obviously) are all in the shadow cabinet. But Tugendhat was not snubbed, Badenoch’s team are saying. He was offered a job, but turned it down. Full shadow Cabinet has just dropped. Interesting that Tom Tugendhat has NOT…

PM gave speech at Glasgow’s Interpol general assembly as Kemi Badenoch works on shadow cabinet appointments Starmer went on to say the government was “going to treat people smugglers like terrorists”. And he explained what that meant. So we’re taking our approach to counter terrorism, which we know works, and apply it to the gangs with our new Border Security Command. We’re ending the fragmentation between policing, Border Force and our intelligence agencies, recruiting hundreds of specialist investigators, the best of the best, from our National Crime Agency, Border Force, immigration enforcement and the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and our…