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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

David Cameron quits Tory frontbench as Sunak names interim top team

David Cameron
David Cameron, the former foreign secretary, is not part of the interim shadow cabinet. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

David Cameron has left Rishi Sunak’s frontbench as the Conservatives unveiled an interim shadow ministerial team ahead of a party leadership race.

The party said Lord Cameron, the former foreign secretary, and Richard Holden, who chaired the Tories through the disastrous election campaign, had resigned from Sunak’s top team. Andrew Mitchell, who had the largely honorary title of deputy foreign secretary in government, becomes shadow foreign secretary.

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