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Sir Mel Stride replaced as shadow chancellor as Conservatives reshuffle top team

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A senior Conservative source said: "Kemi is changing the way the Conservative Party approaches economic policy and creating a new economic leadership team for the next phase, focused on growth, higher living standards and fiscal credibility.

According to the senior party source, the new Conservative Economic Unit will be the driving force of the shadow cabinet’s business and economic policies. Ms Badenoch paid tribute to Sir Mel and Dame Priti in a statement She said: “Like Priti, Mel came into the job at an exceptionally difficult point for the Conservative Party.

In a statement, Sir Mel said: “The Conservative party must continue to champion an approach which is both radical and deliverable.

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