Penny Mordaunt joins the Conservative leadership candidacy
Commerce Secretary Penny Mordaunt has just announced her candidacy to replace Boris Johnson.
Announcing the move on Twitter, Mordaunt said, “Our leadership needs to change. It needs to be a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.”
Updated at 09.43 BST
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By incidence in this week’s explosive news, immediate outrage over the “gesture” of a newly appointed Education Minister off Downing Street has almost faded.
But, unfortunately, for Andrea Jenkyns, who yesterday said she was provoked by a “waste fine”, it is still topical enough to ask other active ministers.
Speaking to Times Radio about the incident earlier, Grant Shapps said, “I would like to see a high level of ownership with everyone. I would not endorse it.”
While you may believe that writing has been on the wall for Boris Johnson for a long time, it’s worth noting that not everyone was ready for his departure.
According to a voter from Spalding’s Tory choir, who spoke with my colleague James Tapper, the prime minister was “stabbed in the back” by his colleagues.
“All politicians are liars, but Boris is the one who has been caught. Look at Keir Starmer: He should be punished just like Boris, “Steve Mason added.
Meanwhile, Rosemary Burton said she had done a “fantastic job” with the vaccines. “I can’t see who would take over from him who would do better,” he added.
You can read the full function of James’ journey to Lincolnshire here:
Here’s a little more of Sajid Javid’s interview with Sophie Raworth earlier. The former health secretary insisted he trusted what he was told when he spoke on behalf of the government during media interviews.
“It turns out that some of the things they told me, and I said it clearly in Parliament when I made my statement, didn’t turn out to be true,” he said.
Sajid Javid was photographed outside issue 10 on Tuesday, the day he resigned Photo: Peter Nicholls / Reuters
“Now, I don’t know why anyone would have told me something that wasn’t true. That’s a question for them. But I trusted what they told me.”
Like his fellow candidate Jeremy Hunt, Javid has announced his intention to cut corporate tax if he succeeds in his career.
He said his tax cut plans would cost around £ 39bn a year, but would not include further reducing short-term fuel taxes.
Explaining that he does not believe in “tax cuts without funding,” Javid said he will set out “a scorecard that will show exactly how we have funded all of this in a sustainable way” over the next few days.
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I bring you a little Sunday morning joy in these politically uncertain times now.
Financial Times senior reporter Chris Cook has just drawn parallels between the video of Penny Mordaunt’s leadership bid campaign and a parody of the 90s satire show The Day Today.
Forgive me for initially thinking that the soundtracks were exactly the same.
Updated at 10.45 BST
Just a reminder of who the current Conservative leadership candidates are: we’re new!
They are as follows:
- Rishi Sunak
- Sajid Javid
- Jeremy Hunt
- Nadhim Zahawi
- Penny Mordaunt
- Grant Shapps
- Braverman sole
- Kemi Badenoch
- Tom Tugendhat
Jeremy Hunt says Esther McVey would be its vice president
With the almost hidden intention of winning over Red Wall voters, Conservative leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has said he would make Esther McVey his deputy prime minister if he succeeds.
Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday Morning, he compared Tatton’s MP to John Prescott as Tony Blair’s MP.
“I also recognize that the leader of a political party must win the election, and that means a broad call, just as Tony Blair made John Prescott expand his appeal as Deputy Prime Minister, I will have Esther McVey as Deputy Prime Minister. “, he said.
“She has won many elections against Labor in the north, I have won them against the Liberal Democrats in the south and I think we will be a formidable campaign team.”
Esther McVey photographed at the 2021 Conservative Party conference. Photo: Michael Mayhew / Sportsphoto / Allstar
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that the admission of Boris Johnson who met with former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at the height of the Salisbury crisis suggests that a “grave rape has taken place of security “.
Cooper told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that there were serious questions to answer about why Johnson, then Secretary of State, allegedly went “with a guest who has never been revealed” shortly after attending a summit. of NATO on Russia.
He pointed to the scandal as part of a broader pattern of the Prime Minister’s alleged problematic conduct.
“I think the problem is that you have someone who is still on Downing Street who no one believes has any duty, no sense of duty to the country, who has been responsible for lies, law enforcement and also current allegations. about the abuse of power towards a young woman while he was mayor of London.
Russian billionaire and KGB ex-agent Alexander Lebedev photographed in 2011. Photo: Sergei Karpukhin / REUTERS
“The point you raised in your introduction, the serious security breach that seems to have occurred while he was Secretary of State, meeting with a former KGB agent just after going to a summit of the NATO to talk about Russia at the height of the Salisbury crisis and go there without officials, going without any security, apparently going with a guest who has never been revealed.
“No one feels confident that Boris Johnson will do what is right for the country. So now he should leave and all the Conservative candidates you have been interviewing, everyone should support him to leave now before do more harm. “
You can read more about the Job Calls for a research on the meeting here:
Updated at 10.10 BST
Sajid Javid says Pincher scandal turned out to be the “final trigger”
Sajid Javid, who resigned as health secretary five days ago, is on Sunday morning for the BBC discussing his leadership offer.
He says he did not want to resign from the “very important” post and denies that his resignation was a coordinated measure with former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
“I had no idea what I was going to do,” Javid says. “That was a decision I made, no one but my advisors closest to my department had any idea I would do that.
Sajid Javid arrives at the BBC Broadcasting House in London this morning. Photography: Stefan Rousseau / PA
“I had a very important job and I didn’t want to give up lightly because I think a lot of people depended on me.
“But I think once you lose confidence in your boss, your prime minister, I don’t think you can hide it.”
He adds that his “doubts” in Johnson’s leadership began late last year when the media revealed Partygate’s first allegations.
Although he believed the “consolidations” he received at the time, he says the Chris Pincher scandal turned out to be the “final trigger”.
Updated at 10.11 BST
Penny Mordaunt joins the Conservative leadership candidacy
Commerce Secretary Penny Mordaunt has just announced her candidacy to replace Boris Johnson.
Announcing the move on Twitter, Mordaunt said, “Our leadership needs to change. It needs to be a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.”
Updated at 09.43 BST
Jeremy Hunt: “What you need are smart tax cuts that will grow the economy”
Former Health Secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt is being discussed by Sophie Raworth for his proposal to cut corporate tax amid the cost of living crisis.
He says current plans to raise the corporate tax would mean that “people will not want to set up business” in the UK and stresses its position as “more cabinet experience” than any of its opponents.
“What you need are smart tax cuts that will grow the economy,” he says.
“I set up my business because Nigel Lawson and Margaret Thatcher created a business-friendly environment. In fact, he was the only one of my friends who came out of college who left and set up his own business.
Hunt arrives at the BBC Broadcasting House in London this morning Photo: Stefan Rousseau / PA
“I want more people to do it, but if we’re going to raise the corporation tax, that’s one of the biggest taxes companies pay, so not just Japan and the United States, but more than France and Germany. Then people will not want to set up business. “
Asked about the immediate problem of supporting families and people struggling to make ends meet, Hunt says the policy would allow his government to ease long-term pressure.
“When you cut people’s personal taxes, which I passionately believe we need to do, it has to be forever and that means it has to be sustainable based on the growth of the economy.” he says.
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More things will come from Sunday’s political programs this morning, but with Rishi Sunak seemingly absent from the rounds, it’s worth noting the Observer splash today.
Major Conservatives have accused Boris Johnson of trying to torpedo his former chancellor’s bid to succeed him as prime minister.
A former vice-chairman of the 1922 Conservative Committee of Deputies, Sir Charles Walker, said requests for moderation were futile because there was so much bad blood.
“It is clear that the prime minister remains deeply affected by the chancellor’s resignation. Rishi’s camp will have to absorb a lot of rage over the next few days. This will apply to whoever takes over,” he said.
You can read the summary of the Observer’s political and political editors, Toby Helm and Michael Savage, here:
Updated at 09.35 BST
Grant Shapps says he headed “very competent” transportation department
Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps is at Sophy Ridge Sunday. He says…