Boris Johnson’s closest allies were backing a ‘stop Rishi’ candidate as the former chancellor stormed ahead tonight in the race to succeed him, and Sajid Javid was eliminated.
threw their weight behind foreign secretary Liz Truss as the candidate most likely to stop the Sunak bandwagon.
Mr Javid triggered the wave of resignations that brought down the PM when he walked out of his job as education secretary on July 5, demanding a ‘new direction’. Transport secretary Grant Shapps had already dropped out of the race and Home Secretary Priti Patel said she would not stand by the time Mr Javid was eliminated.The remaining eight candidates will now need support from at least 30 Tory MPs to survive tomorrow’s ballot before the field is whittled down over the next week to a final two who will face the deciding vote from Conservative Party members over the summer.
‘Despite being asked when he was health secretary, Matt Hancock never visited the Covid Memorial Wall and refused to meet bereaved families on multiple occasions,’ tweeted Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK
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