Shadow Justice Secretary: Robert Jenrick
Jenrick lost the Tory leadership race to Kemi Badenoch, but at least he had an actual opponent in this election.
While studying at Cambridge, Jenrick stood to be president of St John’s College student union. Despite initially running unopposed, he somehow lost one round to a candidate named “re-open nominations,” or “RON.”
Shadow Commons Leader: Jesse Norman
Norman, a veteran of the David Cameron years, should get on just great with new shadow Cabinet colleague Jenrick, particularly after branding his Conservative conference speech last month “lazy, mendacious, simplistic tripe.”
Shadow Energy Secretary: Claire Coutinho
Coutinho is a great survivor of the Rishi Sunak administration, staying in the energy brief despite the Tories being kicked out of office.
Sadly, her career in reality TV didn’t go quite so well. Appearing on “The Taste,” a Nigella Lawson-hosted cooking show in 2015, Couthino was booted out after just two weeks for flunking a dish of braised beef and mashed potato.
Shadow Environment Secretary: Victoria Atkins
Atkins better get swotting up on sewage statistics as she takes on the environment brief. As a government minister, she once struggled to explain how many dentists would benefit from a new program she had been sent out to sell. And in an excruciating exchange with the BBC as policing minister, she forgot how many police officers Britain had on the beat.
