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Tories lose two big names from the front bench in one week as Cleverly and Patel step aside. The 'Kemi Bounce'
The Conservative Party has lost two of its most senior remaining figures from Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet in the space of a few days, deepening the sense of flux around a party still struggling to recover from its 2024 election collapse. On 29 August, Sir James Cleverly resigned as shadow housing secretary to pursue the Conservative nomination for Mayor of London in 2028. The former home secretary and foreign secretary said he needed to be free to campaign fully on London’
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