Kemi Badenoch was reunited with ‘Tall Tory’ James McAlpine on Tuesday as she gave a powerful speech on defence.
Standing at 7ft 2in, Mr McAlpine is one of the tallest people in the country and towered over the 5ft 4in Tory leader.
The Oxford Brookes University student, 23, has described Mrs Badenoch as his ‘heroine’.
He became the unlikely star of last year’s Conservative Party conference in Manchester when he was spotted among the shorter Tory faithful.
Mr McAlpine was pictured in October stooping to speak to Mrs Badenoch, catapulting him into the spotlight.
She had just finished delivering her leader’s speech and sought him out,
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