By Stefan Boscia Tory MP Harriett Baldwin has been elected as the new chair of the Treasury Select Committee, after prevailing in a cross-party ballot. Baldwin, a former Treasury and defence minister, defeated former cabinet ministers Andrea Leadsom and Kit Malthouse in the vote. Baldwin will begin the role immediately, after previous chair Mel Stride was recently appointed as work and pensions secretary in Rishi Sunak’s government. The chair of the Treasury Select Committee leads the questioning of Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and other senior members of the central bank on a regula…