Kemi Badenoch will announce her shadow cabinet within days, as she begins her term as leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party.
The new Tory leader is understood to want her top team in place by Tuesday, when the shadow cabinet is scheduled to meet for the first time since her election.
During the campaign, she suggested she would be open to offering roles to all five of her leadership rivals, although former home secretary James Cleverly has already announced his intention to return to the backbenches.
Other senior Tories to return to the backbenches include Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor, and Badenoch’s predecessor as leader, Rishi Sunak.
But Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, Mel Stride, and Dame Priti Patel appear to still be open to offers of frontbench jobs.
Among Badenoch’s public backers, former Treasury minister Andrew Griffith has been widely tipped as a possible shadow chancellor.