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Chris Mason: Not exactly perfect harmony for Tories as Badenoch picks top team

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There are only 121 Conservative MPs and almost as many shadow ministerial roles to fill.

Number is getting tight and that is before you offer someone a job and they turn it down and so, implicitly at least, threaten not to serve at all.

She was the first choice for leader of just 35% of Tory MPs and 57% of party members.

One senior Conservative got in touch with me to claim that Badenoch , in appointing Patel , had "destroyed within 48 hours any chance she had of having a respectable foreign policy”. Ouch. No one said opposition was easy. And these are just the criticisms from Badenoch ’s own side. Sign up for our Politics Essential newsletter to read top political analysis, gain insight from across the UK and stay up to speed with the big moments. It’ll be delivered straight to your inbox every weekday..

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73

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69

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42

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informal

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English

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46

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