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Hateful Eight: Eight of the candidates hoping to seize Theresa May's crown of thorns
FOUR contenders publicly declared their bids today to become the next Conservative Party leader on a no-deal Brexit platform.
Leadership hopefuls Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey have said they would be prepared to quit with no deal on October 31 if necessary.
This comes after Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Friday that she will be stepping down on June 7 and that a new leader would take the helm by the end of July.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
