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| Pickles 'to be new Tory chairman' | Pickles 'to be new Tory chairman' |
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| Eric Pickles is set to be Conservative Party chairman, as David Cameron continues to reshuffle his front bench. | Eric Pickles is set to be Conservative Party chairman, as David Cameron continues to reshuffle his front bench. |
| Mr Pickles, who had been shadow communities secretary, swaps roles with Caroline Spelman, the BBC understands. | Mr Pickles, who had been shadow communities secretary, swaps roles with Caroline Spelman, the BBC understands. |
| Mr Cameron has already announced he is bringing former chancellor Ken Clarke back as shadow business secretary. | Mr Cameron has already announced he is bringing former chancellor Ken Clarke back as shadow business secretary. |
| Chris Grayling is set to be shadow home secretary, Alan Duncan shadow Commons leader and Theresa May shadow work and pensions secretary. | Chris Grayling is set to be shadow home secretary, Alan Duncan shadow Commons leader and Theresa May shadow work and pensions secretary. |
| Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve will become shadow justice secretary. | |
| He stepped into the home affairs role last year when David Davis gave up the post to fight a by-election on the issue of civil liberties - in protest at the government's handling of the vote on extending detention of terror suspects. | |
| Mr Grieve is replacing Nick Herbert, who goes to the shadow environment brief, replacing Peter Ainsworth. | |
| Mr Pickles, who is popular with grass roots Tories, ran the party's successful Crewe and Nantwich by-election campaign. | |
| Ms Spelman had found herself at the centre of a row over the use of expenses to pay her nanny - for which she is being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog. |