Sajid Javid – I gave Boris the benefit of the doubt again and again
The starting gun has been fired in the race for the next Prime Minister. Ten Conservatives have already thrown their hat into the ring, with Penny Mordaunt becoming the latest to declare as of this morning. Sophie Raworth spoke to the man who kicked off this process – the now former Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who resigned his post on Tuesday, being shortly followed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak. She asked him if their resignations had been co-ordinated in order to bring the ‘Big Dog’ down:
Tax cuts needed to avoid ‘low growth trap’
The interview turned to Javid’s pitch for the leadership, and Javid outlined his case for urgent tax cut, which he insisted were ‘essential’ for the economy to grow:
Jeremy Hunt – Esther McVey and I will be ‘a formidable campaigning team’
The Health Select Committee Chair Jeremy Hunt is back for more after finishing as runner up to Boris Johnson back in 2019. While setting out his stall, Hunt revealed his candidate for his deputy Prime Minister:
Sophie Ridge spoke to the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, another of the runners and riders, asking him about Boris Johnson’s character:
“Do you think Boris Johnson is a man of integrity?” – #Ridge@grantshapps says one of Boris Johnson’s “failings was that he was almost too loyal to people and we saw a succession of people who he would defend” like Pincher and Cummings.
Tom Tugendhat – ‘I invaded a country once’
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The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and former soldier Tom Tugendhat offered Ridge one of the more interesting answers to the now age-old question ‘What’s the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done?’:
“What’s the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done?” – @SophyRidgeSky
Yvette Cooper – Vote of no confidence is possible this week
Leadership contender @TomTugendhat says: “I invaded a country once.”#Ridge: https://t.co/ZoMhCmTrtv
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The Shadow Home Secretary told Raworth that if Boris Johnson was going to continue in post then Sir Keir Starmer would invite the House of Commons to express its enthusiasm for him in a vote of confidence:
And finally, Ridge asked the Tory grandee David Davis to give some advice for all the candidates as they begin jockeying for position to take the top job:
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