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Conservative MP Jesse Norman says 'there's only one shadow cabinet' after Nigel Farage named his top team for Reform UK on Tuesday.Two Conservative defectors, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, were given prominent spokesperson roles along with senior Reform figures Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf.
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00:00You know, there's only one shadow cabinet in the British Constitution, and that's the cabinet of the official opposition.
00:06You know, there's only one shadow cabinet in the British Constitution, and that's the cabinet of the official opposition.
00:12And you can call these things what you like, but that doesn't change their constitutional function.
00:18And, you know, I think reform have got much deeper issues than what they happen to call a group of
00:25people that they have assembled together.
00:28And, you know, they are doing very well in the polls at the moment.
00:34We're assured, but let's see how that pans out, because, you know, setting yourself up as a program for government
00:41is a very serious and a completely different matter.
00:44It requires a scale of talent and political commitment to an organization that is not on the table at the
00:49moment.
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