Former cupboard minister Sir James Cleverly has been named shadow housing secretary in Conservative Party chief Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle of her senior workforce.
His new appointment will see him go head-to-head with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner within the House of Commons.
Announcing Sir James’s return to the entrance bench, Badenoch mentioned her social gathering was “shifting into a brand new section” and she or he needed to verify all her heavy hitters have been on the bench.
Following his appointment Sir James mentioned: “This Labour authorities is completely failing the nation, and the capital, on housing – and beneath Kemi’s management, I’m prepared to steer the combat towards this failure”.
Sir James served various high-profile cupboard roles throughout the Conservative Party’s time in workplace. This included stints as house secretary and international secretary. He was very briefly schooling secretary – for 2 months – earlier than being appointed to international secretary by the then Prime Minister Liz Truss.
He was additionally Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on the Department for Exiting the European Union from April 2019 to July 2019.
He was first elected because the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2015.
