One of the quaintest – and most enduring – of all Westminster traditions is how ambitious politicians skirt around the question of whether they want to be party leader/PM. They don’t say “yes” – that would be far too brash. But they don’t say “no” either – feeling, for some reason, that that’s the one lie they can’t tell.
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