Appointments to the shadow cabinet recall Ernest Shackleton’s job advert to cross the Antarctic. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger.’ One of those brave – or foolhardy – enough to sign up for Kemi Badenoch’s top team was Andrew Griffith, last month named the new shadow chancellor. Griffith is a successful businessman, ex-Treasury minister and can boast of being the only ex-FTSE100 boss currently serving in the Commons. With a Budget looming in six weeks’ time, this morning he made his first big speech in the role. Griffith opted to play it safe in his first outing, speaking at the Capital City College Group in Tottenham to talk tax, jobs and small businesses. 

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