James Cleverly at last year's Tory conference in Birmingham.Despite her spokesman bizarrely claiming in January that there would be no Tory reshuffle before the next election, Kemi Badenoch is carrying out a shake-up of her top team.The Conservative leader has been partly forced into it by shadow health secretary Edward Argar’s decision to stand down for health reasons.But after a less-than-stellar first eight months in the job, it gives Badenoch the chance to carry out a much-needed a refresh of the Tory frontbench.The big news from the reshuffle is the return to frontline politics of James Cleverly as shadow housing secretary, where he will go head-to-head with deputy prime minister Angela Rayner.One of the few genuine Tory big beasts still in the Commons after last year’s general election wipeout, the former foreign secretary and home secretary will bring some political heft to the Conservative operation.However, his appointment does not come without risks for Badenoch, not leas
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