UK's Conservatives name new finance, foreign policy heads, Sky News says


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  • Tuesday, 05 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride walks on Downing Street, in London, Britain, May 22, 2024. Reuters/Hollie Adams/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's opposition Conservatives named Mel Stride as finance policy chief and Priti Patel as foreign policy chief on Monday, Sky News reported, appointments which suggest new leader, Kemi Badenoch, would try to unite the party's often warring factions.

Badenoch, who became the Conservatives' new leader and the first Black woman to a head a major British political party on Saturday, has pledged to return the party to its founding principles, a promise some feared could see a move to the right.

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