Today’s Sun reports that Cabinet ‘big beasts’ – Michael Gove, Amber Rudd and Gavin Williamson – are amassing ‘huge war chests’ as they line up leadership bids. Williamson is on £10,000 – behind both Rudd and Gove.
Still, the ambitious Defence Secretary is making sure he is not outdone on other fronts. Williamson is down to give a ‘wide-ranging’ speech at next week’s Institute of Economic Affairs bash – and then the following week will be a star guest at the Conservative Progress conference – an event stuffed with Tory activists.
Well, with Gove lined up to advise not one, but three new Tory think tanks, Williamson still has work to do…

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