Tory leadership hopefuls jostle for position as party licks its wounds

Leading contenders in the battle to replace Rishi Sunak and restore the Tories’ fortunes have been making initial pitches to Conservatives for support.

Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and Victoria Atkins used a series of newspaper articles and interviews to say what they think went wrong for the Tories and how the party can turn itself around following its worst-ever election result.

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[Dharmarenee]

Sunak knew this was a more than likely outcome this was deliberate.

[anil]

If it was for Suella, they would not have crossed even the 100 mark. her arrogance and she.

[brickshitenhauser]

didn’t stop 1 boat, the sunak sh*tshow, rwandan government laughing their socks off, he gets to just walk off, crazy.

[crabbit]

Whoever it is, can they at least be an actual conservative? Would be a nice change.

[integrito]

Rischi knew this was going to be the outcome and took the country to General early so you would not benefit 1 day longer rightly or wrongly from your disloyalty to him and you arrogance to the nation. Hopefully you will be in opposition for the rest of your forseeable future. But who knows the Briitish people are fickle. Maybe you can come up with some more divisive policies, maybe call the 'exit' and woo them all back!

[John-serc]

I think Russell Brand should be the next tory leader 😂😂

[johannesnicolaas]

Sunak the Desperate as he will be called in future.... and now he flees with a huge non dom status.

[mojalalunia]

I am sorry, some people whatever they do to their hair or their face, it won’t change the reality of their ……