Farage is hosting at Church House in Westminster. Robert Jenrick is expected to bag Shadow Chancellor, Zia Yusuf will get home affairs, Tice takes business, energy, and industry. Also laid out is a podium for skills and education. No foreign affairs podium, though. Watch live…
UPDATES:
Tice would lead ‘Business, Trade, and Energy’ super-department and would be Deputy PM.
Robert Jenrick as Shadow Chancellor.
Nigel Farage announces Zia Yusuf as Shadow Home Secretary “with particular reference” to legal and illegal immigration. Also apparently he has the justice brief…
Farage announces Suella Braverman as Shadow Education and Skills Secretary along with the equalities brief.
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”