Two MPs who stood against the new leader are made shadow chancellor and foreign secretary respectively

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Kemi Badenoch has appointed Mel Stride shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary as she began to put together a Conservative frontbench team billed as uniting the party.

The appointment of the two MPs, who ran against Badenoch in the leadership contest, followed the decision to make Laura Trott, a leading supporter of her campaign, shadow education secretary.