Alicia Kearns: the one-nation Tory taking on the Foreign Office

Alicia Kearns is viewed as both a committed Conservative and someone who is unafraid to speak their mind. Composite: Guardian Design/House of Commons

Alicia Kearns, as a former Foreign Office official and an outspoken voice on foreign affairs, is an MP who understands how the department ticks.

She is also someone who does not give up easily, and with some freedom to operate since she is neither on Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative frontbench nor the Labour dominated foreign affairs select committee, a body she chaired until this summer.