Kemi Badenoch has appointed Chris Philp as the new shadow home secretary as she announced her shadow cabinet.
Other significant appointments include James Cartlidge as shadow defence secretary, Ed Argar as shadow health secretary and Andrew Griffith as shadow business and trade secretary.
They will join Mel Stride who is shadow chancellor, Dame Priti Patel who is shadow foreign secretary and Robert Jenrick who is shadow justice secretary.
However, there is no role for Tom Tugendhat, another of Mrs Badenoch's Tory leadership rivals, while James Cleverly had already ruled himself out of staying on the frontbench. The shadow cabinet met for this first time this morning.
The new Tory leader said: "I am delighted to have appointed my shadow cabinet, which draws on the talents of people from across the Conservative Party, based on meritocracy and with a breadth of experience and perspective, just as I promised during the campaign.
"Our party's problems will only be solved with a team effort, and I am confident my shadow cabinet ministers will deliver effective opposition as we seek to win back the trust of the public.
"We will now get to work holding Labour to account and rebuilding our party based on Conservative principles and values. The process of renewing our great party has now begun."
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Kemi Badenoch today revealed the shadow cabinet she hopes will propel the Tories back into power at the next general election.
Her top team is a mix of veteran operators and new blood.
Telegraph readers have been busy responding to the appointments in the comments section of today's live blog. Here is a selection:
Wes Streeting said he hoped his Tory shadow would help to "restore reason to Conservatism".
The Health Secretary congratulated Edward Argar on being appointed shadow health secretary but also took a shot at the Tories at the same time:
Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet appointments show the Tories "have learnt nothing", Labour claimed.
Ellie Reeves, the Labour Party chair, claimed that "chaos, division, and recklessness will continue unabated at the heart of the Tories".
She said: "Instead of turning the page on 14 years of Tory government, Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet shows that the Conservatives have learnt nothing.
"How can the new Conservative leader claim to be changing the Tory Party when most of her team were ministers for Liz Truss as they crashed Britain's economy, or claim to want to uphold standards when most went AWOL for the vote on Boris Johnson's antics at Partygate?
"Badenoch's appointments guarantee that chaos, division, and recklessness will continue unabated at the heart of the Tories. Meanwhile, Labour is getting on with fixing the foundations of the British economy and delivering for working people."
Six in ten voters, including almost half of Labour voters, believe farmers who pass their farms onto the next generation should be exempt from inheritance tax, new polling has found.
The study, conducted by pollsters More in Common, found that 57 per cent of voters surveyed agreed with the statement: "When a farmer passes their farm onto the next generation, they should not be required to pay inheritance tax on their farms".
Just 24 per cent were in favour of the move.
The polling comes amid a backlash to plans announced by Rachel Reeves last week to place a 20 per cent tax on farmers' assets worth more than £1 million.
"The measure has the potential to generate significant negative coverage for the Government if farmers campaign against it", More in Common warned.
Mo Metcalf-Fisher, director of external affairs at the Countryside Alliance said: "While some in Whitehall might think otherwise, there is huge sympathy and support from the public for our farmers. These figures only reinforce the importance of the Government engaging with farming organisations and having a rethink".
A Labour MP has said he was mugged on his way back to his London flat.
Chris Webb, MP for Blackpool South, thanked police for their "swift response" to the incident on Monday night.
He posted on social media site X: "Last night, as I was returning to my flat in London, I was attacked and mugged by a group of individuals.
"Luckily, I have no injuries and I am OK. Unfortunately, they just took my phone so I'm without one for the foreseeable future.
"I want to thank the Metropolitan Police Service for their swift response and support. The officers who assisted me went above and beyond. They are a remarkable credit to the force."
The Metropolitan Police said: "Officers were called at 21:55hrs on Monday, 4 November following reports of a robbery on Lambeth Walk. The victim was approached by a group of men who stole his phone from his hand. Enquiries remain ongoing."
Downing Street has refused to commit to a meeting with farmers to discuss the impact of the Government's "tractor tax", Amy Gibbons writes.
Sir Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure to sit down with the National Farmers' Union (NFU) as the backlash to the inheritance tax raid announced at the Budget continues to build.
This morning, Tom Bradshaw, the president of the NFU, called for talks with the Prime Minister and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor.
Asked whether Sir Keir and Ms Reeves would sit down with the NFU, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said the Government was "always listening to the sector" but refrained from making any firm commitments.
"I always update on PM diary in the usual way, but my point is that we continue to engage with the sector," he said.
"The Environment Secretary and the Exchequer Secretary jointly met with the NFU president yesterday following meetings with the farming minister, and we'll obviously continue to meet with the sector at various levels."
Kemi Badenoch has posted photos of her first shadow cabinet meeting.
The newly elected Tory leader wrote on Instagram: "Delighted to hold my first meeting of the new Shadow Cabinet this morning.
Steve Barclay has congratulated his successor, Victoria Atkins, on her new role as shadow Defra secretary.
The former shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs did not publicly back any of the leadership contenders but posted on X: "Congratulations @VictoriaAtkins on becoming the new Shadow Defra Secretary.
"Wishing you every success in supporting our farmers and rural communities in the face of a Labour government that simply doesn't understand them."
Kemi Badenoch has split the women and equalities brief into two parts.
Anneliese Dodds is the Government's minister for women and equalities but the shadowing role will be undertaken by both Claire Coutinho and Mims Davies.
Ms Coutinho has been made the shadow minister for equalities, as well as serving as shadow energy secretary, while Ms Davies has been made the shadow minister for women, as well as serving as shadow Welsh secretary.
Kemi Badenoch's new shadow cabinet may bring with it a new generation of senior Tories, but a quick analysis shows her top team is only slightly younger than her predecessor's, writes Amy Gibbons.
Mrs Badenoch, 44, is herself the same age as Rishi Sunak, who became the youngest prime minister in modern times at the age of 42.
Her shadow cabinet has an average age of 50, just two years younger than Mr Sunak's team, which averaged 52 years old at the time of the election on July 4.
The youngest shadow minister is Julia Lopez, Mrs Badenoch's parliamentary private secretary, who is 38. The eldest is Lord True, 73, who will continue as shadow leader of the House of Lords.
Mrs Badenoch's team also has roughly the same number of women as Mr Sunak's final cabinet, although she has two (including herself) in Great Offices of State, where the former prime minister had none.
The analysis includes all full cabinet and shadow cabinet members, as well as those who are invited to attend.
The Conservative Party's new co-chairman said he needs to rebuild the party's membership, which has significantly declined.
Nigel Huddleston was asked about Reform UK reporting it now has 95,000 members (see the post below at 09.13), while the Tory leadership election results on Saturday showed the party had 131,680 Tory members eligible to vote - a record low.
He told LBC: "One of my roles is to grow the membership base, and I understand why people have joined Reform, but I say if you want change in Britain, you need to join the Conservative Party, because we will be the ones who hopefully will form the next government."
He added: "I think when we're able to articulate our policy platform, it resonates with large numbers of people across the country, including millions of people who maybe voted Reform at the last election, we need to make sure that they can come back to the Conservatives, and we want to be clear that they have a home here because we share their values."
Only three backers of Robert Jenrick's Tory leadership campaign have been appointed to Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet, writes Ben Riley-Smith.
Ed Argar has been made the shadow health secretary and Victoria Atkins has been appointed shadow environment secretary. Mr Jenrick himself was appointed the shadow justice secretary yesterday.
It means of the 25 Tory shadow cabinet ministers announced by Ms Badenoch, just three publicly supported Mr Jenrick to win.
In the final round, Mr Jenrick won 41 Tory MP votes, meaning the vast majority of them have been overlooked from the shadow cabinet.
One Tory source told The Telegraph: "This is a very Kemi shadow cabinet."
Mr Jenrick, Mr Argar and Ms Atkins do have senior positions on the frontbench.
Kemi Badenoch's new shadow cabinet represents a shift to a new generation of senior Tories.
Some of the old guard fight on - Mel Stride, Dame Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick - but many of the Conservative Party's most senior elected figures will now be on the backbenches.
Jeremy Hunt, Suella Braverman, Oliver Dowden, Steve Barclay and Tom Tugendhat are all now on the outside looking in.
Mrs Braverman will be hoping the mix of a handful of veterans and a significant amount of fresh blood will help set the Conservative Party back on a course to power.
Victoria Atkins, who has been appointed shadow environment secretary, requested the role, according to a source close to Kemi Badenoch.
She had been shadow health secretary, meaning in theory the new environment position is a step down in seniority.
A Badenoch source said Ms Atkins "asked specifically" for the environment brief.
"Vicky really wants to take the fight to Labour" on farming, the source added.
A source close to Kemi Badenoch said she was unveiling a "unity shadow cabinet".
The source said: "This is a shadow cabinet that is based on meritocracy, it's based on experience.
"There is geographical spread, there is an age spread. Appointments come from the Right to the Left of the party, from Kemi supporters to [Robert] Jenrick supporters. This is a unity shadow cabinet."
Kemi Badenoch said the "process of renewing our great party has now begun" after she unveiled her shadow cabinet.
The Tory leader said her appointments had been "based on meritocracy".
She said in a statement: "I am delighted to have appointed my shadow cabinet, which draws on the talents of people from across the Conservative Party, based on meritocracy and with a breadth of experience and perspective, just as I promised during the campaign.
"Our party's problems will only be solved with a team effort, and I am confident my shadow cabinet ministers will deliver effective opposition as we seek to win back the trust of the public.
"We will now get to work holding Labour to account and rebuilding our party based on Conservative principles and values. The process of renewing our great party has now begun."
Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said:
"This [shadow] cabinet of contradictions is a recipe for yet more Conservative chaos. How can they claim to be able to hold this new government to account when they have just as many disagreements with each other?
"From a shadow justice secretary who wants to leave the ECHR to a shadow foreign secretary who had to resign for holding undisclosed meetings, this shadow cabinet has more than a 'whiff of impropriety'.
"The Conservative Party voted for the economic vandalism caused by Liz Truss's mini Budget and shattered the NHS. Every major challenge that this country faces the Conservative Party is responsible for.
"The Liberal Democrats are the only party that can provide the decent opposition that this country needs."
Chris Philp said the UK needed to "very substantially reduce" legal migration and "end illegal entry" to the country after he was appointed as shadow home secretary.
Mr Philp said in a lengthy Twitter thread that Labour had "already showed itself to be soft on crime and on criminals".
He said: "We now have a mission to hold Labour to account and win back the trust of the public. Conservatives need to work to develop detailed and credible plans, based on our core principles, in order to do that."
He added: "We need to very substantially reduce legal migration, aim to end illegal entry to the UK and remove those with no right to be here - especially criminals. Nothing can be allowed to stand in the way of this critical mission."
The leader of the Welsh Conservatives said the new shadow cabinet was "exciting and balanced".
Andrew RT Davies said: "Kemi Badenoch's new Shadow Cabinet is an exciting and balanced team to hold the UK Government to account.
"We in Wales are particularly looking forward to working with Mims Davies to make sure we can put an end to Labour rule in Wales as well as in Westminster.
"I know that Mims and her other colleagues will stand up for Wales as they take on this lying Labour Government."
There is one big name missing from Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet: Tom Tugendhat.
Mrs Badenoch found roles for three of her Tory leadership rivals - Mel Stride, Robert Jenrick and Dame Priti Patel - and James Cleverly had ruled out staying on the frontbench.
But Mr Tugendhat, the former security minister, is notable by his absence.
Chris Philp has been appointed shadow home secretary as Kemi Badenoch announced her shadow cabinet.
Other significant appointments include James Cartlidge as shadow defence secretary, Ed Argar as shadow health secretary and Andrew Griffith as shadow business and trade secretary.
Nigel Farage said Reform UK has seen a boost in membership since Kemi Badenoch was picked as Conservative Party leader.
He told LBC: "Seeing it already. Seeing it already. We've gone through 95,000 members this morning. So we've gone up 1,500 in the last three or four days.
"And these are Conservatives who are hanging on to see whether the party could change direction. For us as a party, it's very good news."
Speaking from a Donald Trump rally in the US, he said of Ms Badenoch: "There's going to be no change whatsoever. She is a continuity candidate with all the influences of Michael Gove and all the gang in 10 Downing Street, and somehow she thinks, miraculously, she can bring them together.
"There are two parties within the Conservative Party. You've got the Reform-minded people and the Liberal Democrat-minded people, and they are so far apart, it's not true."
Tory co-chairman Nigel Huddleston said he expected Kemi Badenoch to double up on shadow ministerial positions to make sure the opposition can shadow the Government with a drastically reduced number of MPs.
Asked how the party would be able to cover and shadow with its 121 Conservative MPs when there are 124 positions in the Government, he told Sky News: "Well, we will cover it because we've got immense talent in the Conservative Party.
"It's not uncommon. For example, when I was in government, a couple of times, I was both a whip and a minister, and that happens as well.
"So actually, you don't need quite the number that you might imagine in terms of coverage, and we've got some very competent people who can often do two jobs. But the key thing is, we've also got some new talent as well in the party.
"We've got 28 new MPs, some of whom you've seen deliver the most amazing maiden speeches and bringing great experience. And I suspect that some of those will be in the government as well."
Kemi Badenoch's top team will be a mix of "big beasts from the past" and newly elected Tory MPs, the chairman of the Conservative Party said.
Nigel Huddleston said the most important thing was that the new team will be united. He said Tory disunity had "annoyed" voters at the general election.
He told GB News: "We will bring in some big beasts from the past, some of who have got great experience, and of course some new people.
"But the key thing is we will unite around renewal, we will unite around Kemi because we have to do that.
"One of the messages I got loud and clear from the electorate at the last general election, it was the disunity that annoyed people, it was the fact that we were fighting amongst ourselves, that people didn't understand what we stood for.
"Those are all things that Kemni has taken on board and this new message from the new opposition will be very clear indeed."
The Tories are now "up for the fight" against Labour after the election of Kemi Badenoch as leader, the chairman of the Conservative Party said.
Nigel Huddleston said the Tories will now unite around Mrs Badenoch and provide "effective opposition" to Labour because the "whole future of the country is at stake".
He told GB News: "We do need to focus on those principles that unite us which is very different, I think you saw in the Budget last week in particular, we believe in low taxes, we believe in personal responsibility, we believe in efficient and where possible small government.
"This is in stark contrast to the opposition and we are up for the fight now. We will unite around the new leader because the whole future of the country is at stake and therefore we take that responsibility to be an effective opposition very seriously indeed."
The Conservative Party needs a "fresh look" after its general election "beating", the new Tory chairman said.
Nigel Huddleston said the party will undertake a "period of reflection" to figure out why it lost to Labour as he suggested policy announcements could be some way off.
He told GB News: "We have got a period of reflection to do and Kemi was very clear in her whole election campaign, her whole election campaign was called Renewal 2030, it wasn't Kemi for Leader.
"It is about renewing the party, uniting the party and making sure that we hold this Government to account and therefore be in a position to win as many seats as possible come the next election and of course local elections coming up.
"In order to do that we do need a fresh look. We took a beating at the last general election, we need to properly reflect and understand why and then develop policies based on those core principles that unite us."
The shadow cabinet will "reflect the breadth" of the Conservative Party, the Tory chairman said.
Nigel Huddleston told GB News: "She [Kemi Badenoch] wants to make sure that this is a shadow cabinet and a shadow team that reflects the breadth of the party and embraces all the talents.
"Reshuffles and appointments is always a somewhat difficult process.
"But I have sensed a strong sense of good will for support and you have seen many, many colleagues of mine who supported other candidates come out and say 'look, we are now backing Kemi, she is the leader, we want to support her' and I think that is the overall tone you will see today."
Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet appointments are driven by a desire to unite the Conservative Party, the new Tory chairman said this morning.
Nigel Huddleston said the new Tory leader wanted to make use of all of the big "talents" in the party.
Asked about the appointments of Mel Stride, Dame Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick, Mr Huddleston said he could not confirm the appointments just yet.
But he said: "Kemi was very clear that she wanted to offer roles to all of her opponents because she has a great degree of respect for them, all of those who wish to serve, and all of the names you mentioned, they are talents in the party and one of the key things Kemi wants to do is unite the party and make sure that we draw in all the talents in terms of those serving in the shadow team."
The new joint chairman of the Conservative Party confirmed Kemi Badenoch will fill the remaining posts in her shadow cabinet before it meets at 10am this morning.
Asked if he expected all of the roles to be filled before the first meeting, Nigel Huddleston told GB News: "I believe we do. Kemi appointed a few roles out of necessity over the last couple of days including the chief whip, myself and my co-chair and a couple of education ministers because they had to be in the chamber yesterday.
"But most of the appointments will be announced shortly. You don't have long to wait now and the intention is to have the first shadow cabinet meeting about 10 o'clock this morning."
Robert Jenrick, the new shadow justice secretary, has mocked Sir Keir Starmer over his latest crackdown on migrant small boat Channel crossings as he claimed "the people smugglers are laughing at you".
The Prime Minister yesterday unveiled a £150 million package of measures designed to stop the boats as he repeated his pledge to treat the smuggling gangs the same as terrorists.
But Mr Jenrick, who was appointed to Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet yesterday, said Labour's decision to scrap the Tories' Rwanda deportation plan meant it was now "open season" for the crossings.
He tweeted:
It is a big day for Kemi Badenoch as the new Tory leader holds the first meeting of her new shadow cabinet.
Three of her former leadership rivals will be in the room after Mrs Badenoch appointed Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary, Dame Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride as shadow chancellor.
Mrs Badenoch will be hoping that the appointments will help to unify the Tories after the lengthy race to replace Rishi Sunak.
Most of the shadow cabinet is yet to be named but we should find out who has been given the frontbench jobs in the next few hours.