Author: Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Kemi Badenoch has now appointed her full shadow cabinet. Here are the people handed the key jobs. Mel Stride – shadow chancellor After much jockeying for the job of shadow chancellor, and predictions the role would go to the key Badenoch supporter Andrew Griffith, the new Tory leader has chosen a relative centrist whom most in the party will see as a safe pair of hands.  Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA Stride, an MP since 2010, did about as well as he could have expected in standing to replace Rishi Sunak, raising his profile before being eliminated in the second round of…