Kemi Badenoch will name a shadow cabinet in the coming days

Kemi Badenoch will announce her shadow cabinet in a few days when she begins her term as Opposition Leader.

The new Tory leader is understood to want her senior team in place by Tuesday, when the shadow cabinet is due to meet for the first time since her election.

During the election campaign she suggested she was prepared to offer roles to all five of her leadership rivals, although former home secretary James Cleverley has already announced his intention to return to the backbenches.

Other senior Tories who will return to the backbenches include former chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Ms Badenoch’s predecessor as leader Rishi Sunak.

But Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, Mel Stride and Dame Priti Patel still appear to be open to offers for front-line jobs.

Among Ms Badenoch’s public supporters, former Chancellor Andrew Griffith is widely seen as a possible shadow chancellor.

Ms Badenoch became the first black woman to lead a major European political party on Saturday when she defeated Mr Jenrick by 53,806 votes to 41,388.

Her initial election to the shadow cabinet may also indicate the direction in which she intends to take the party, with some commentators suggesting her election marks a shift to the right as the Tories try to win back votes lost to a reformist Britain.

In her victory speech on Saturday, she acknowledged her party had a “huge job” ahead of it and needed to be “honest” about where it had “made mistakes.”

She said: “It is time to tell the truth, stand up for our principles, plan for our future, reset our politics and our thinking and give our party and our country the fresh start it deserves. “

She later told the Sunday Telegraph that a Labor government “will fail because it is repeating many of our mistakes and doubling down on this broken system”.

She added: “The job now is for the Conservatives to hold them to account and start the work of renewal.”