Conservative reshuffle and round-up of recent stakeholder changes and appointments

Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch has completed changes to her Shadow Cabinet

The full list of the Shadow Ministerial teams is as follows:

• Leader of the Conservative Party: Kemi Badenoch
• Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Alex Burghart
• Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer: Andrew Griffith
• Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade: Claire Coutinho
• Cover while on maternity leave: Julia Lopez
• Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Richard Fuller
• Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs: Tom Tugendhat 
• Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department: Chris Philp
• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence: James Cartlidge
• Shadow Minister for Policy Renewal: Neil O'Brien
• Chairman of the Conservative Party: Kevin Hollinrake
• Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Helen Whately
• Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security: Andrew Bowie
• Shadow Secretary of State for Education: Laura Trott
• Shadow Secretary of State for Justice: Nick Timothy
• Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: Damian Hinds
• Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Victoria Atkins
• Shadow Secretary of State for Transport: Richard Holden
• Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government: Katie Lam
• Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport: Rebecca Paul
• Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland: Harriet Cross
• Shadow Secretary of State for Wales: Mims Davies
• Shadow Secretary of State for Women & Equalities: Joy Morrissey
• Shadow Leader of the House of Commons: Jesse Norman
• Shadow Leader of the House of Lords: Lord True
• Opposition Chief Whip: Rebecca Harris
• PPS to the Leader: John Glen

Other appointments and changes (made since June 12)

New Parliamentary Private Secretaries

• Ministry of Defence Pam Cox and Chris Kane
• Department for Education Laurence Turner

Note: All PPSs are available on PolicyMogul

House of Lords - New political peerages announced on July 16

Nominations from the Leader of the Labour Party:

• Alison Garnham - Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group
• Alison Lowe OBE - Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in West Yorkshire
• Barbara Mills KC - Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales (2025), family law barrister and Joint Head of Chambers at 4PB
• Cathy Ashley OBE - Chief Executive of Family Rights Group and former Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
• Christina McAnea Former General Secretary of UNISON
• June Sarpong OBE - Broadcaster, charity campaigner and social equity advocate
• The Rt Hon Ken Macintosh DL - Former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
• Kitty Ussher - British economist, former Member of Parliament for Burnley and former Economic Secretary to the Treasury
• Marcus Davey CBE Former CEO and Artistic Director of the Roundhouse
• Martin McTague OBE - National Chair of the Federation of Small Businesses
• Nick Stace OBE - Chief Global Impact Officer at Howden Group
• Parvais Jabbar MBE - Human rights expert, co-founder and Co-Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project
• Roberto Neri - CEO of The Ivors Academy and a Director of UK Music
• The Rt Hon Sir Sadiq Khan - Mayor of London and former Member of Parliament for Tooting
• Saul Lehrfreund MBE - Human rights expert, co-founder and Co-Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project
• Tim J Smith CBE - Former Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency

Nominations from the Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party:

• Dave McCobb - Liberal Democrat Director of Field Campaigns. Former Hull City Councillor of 22 years
• Hannah Kitching - Chair of the Yorkshire Liberal Democrats and Town Mayor of Penistone. Former NHS physiotherapist and Barnsley councillor
• Julia Aglionby - Executive Director of the Foundation for Common Land, agricultural valuer and former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate
• Mark Petterson - Director of Warwick Energy Limited, pioneer of UK offshore wind and long-standing adviser to the Liberal Democrats
• Dr Tim Leunig Chief Economist at Nesta and Visiting Professor at LSE, former senior civil servant and economic adviser

Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party:

• David Ross - Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, co-Founder of Carphone Warehouse, Sponsor and Chair of David Ross Education Trust, founder of the Nevill Holt Festival and former Chair of the National Portrait Gallery
• General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO - Lately Chief of the General Staff, British Army
• Professor Swaran Singh - Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, University of Warwick; consultant Psychiatrist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and former Equality and Human Rights Commissioner

Nominations for Crossbench Peerages:

• The Rt Hon Sir Brian Leveson - Investigatory Powers Commissioner, former President of the Queen's Bench Division and Lord Justice of Appeal, former Chair of the Sentencing Council and Chair of the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press
• Sir Chris Wormald KCB - Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service.

Retirements

• Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
• Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
• Lord Jopling 

Deaths

• Lord Laming
• Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale

Lord Committees

• Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath discharged as chair; Viscount Goschen added
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Lord Russell of Liverpool added
• Environment and Climate Change Lord Ashcombe added
• Financial Services Regulation Lord Vaux of Harrowden added
• International Relations and Defence Lord De Mauley added
• Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments - Baroness Hunter of Auchenreoch replaced Lord Young of Norwood Green
• Liaison Earl Howe added
• National Resilience Baroness Curran discharged
• Numeracy for Life - Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson replaced Baroness Spielman; Lord Hampton added
• Procedure and Privileges Viscount Goschen and Earl Howe added
• Secondary Legislation Scrutiny - Baroness Dacres of Lewisham replaced Lord Pitkeathley of Camden Town

House of Commons

• Cameron Thomas, MP for Tewkesbury, suspended by the Liberal Democrats, now sits as an Independent

Select committees

• Education - Jodie Gosling replaced Chris Vince
• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Ben Goldsborough replaced Tim Roca
• Housing, Communities and Local Government - Jonathan Brash and Ashley Dalton replaced Andrew Lewin and Sean Woodcock
• International Development - Alicia Kearns replaced David Reed
• Justice - Janet Daby replaced Linsey Farnsworth
• Northern Ireland Affairs - Sir Alec Shelbrooke replaced Alicia Kearns
• Science, Innovation and Technology - Tom Collins and Maya Ellis replaced Dr Lauren Sullivan and Adam Thompson
• Scottish Affairs - Douglas Lumsden replaced Jack Rankin
• Transport - Daniel Francis replaced Baggy Shanker
• Treasury - Julie Minns replaced Luke Murphy
• Women and Equalities - Richard Quigley replaced David Burton-Sampson
• Work and Pensions - Patrick Hurley and Liz Twist replaced Johanna Baxter and Amanda Hack

Waes

• Ken Skates was confirmed as Labour leader

Scotland 

• Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education Ben Macpherson has resigned for health-related reasons
• James Adams replaced Douglas Lumsden as Conservative MSP for North East Scotland following the latter's election as MP for Edinburgh South

Northern Ireland

• Robbie Butler replaced Mike Nesbitt as health minister

Other

Reform UK's Colin Sutton was elected as Norfolk's Police and Crime Commissioner, replacing Sarah Taylor who resigned.