Penny Mordaunt joins Tory leadership bid
Commerce Secretary Penny Mordaunt has just announced his candidacy in the race to replace Boris Johnson.
Mordaunt announced the move on Twitter, saying, “Our leadership needs to change. This may interest you : Secretary Blinken’s Conversation with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari – United States Department of State. It needs to be a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.”
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Leadership candidates rule out Scottish referendum for at least 10 years
Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid have said there should not be another vote on Scottish independence for at least another decade. Read also : What future for Boris Johnson? Books, columns, speeches, a return?.
Their comments come after Nicola Sturgeon said another vote would be held in October next year. Scotland’s Lords Advocate has referred a bill to the Supreme Court in an attempt to ensure Sturgeon has the legal powers to hold a referendum without the authority of the British government.
When Hunt was asked on the BBC’s Sunday Morning program if he would allow another referendum, Hunt said: “Not in the next 10 years.”
Javid, who answered the same question in a later interview, said: “The last one was for a generation and the generation has not changed, so no.
“Not forever, but not for at least a decade.”
Meanwhile, co-leader candidate Tom Tugendhat said that although the union was voluntary with no rules preventing one country from leaving, “you can not keep asking the same question in hopes of a different answer”.
Sky News reports that Liz Truss is expected to announce her leadership bid within the next 24 hours, which would make her the tenth candidate to throw their hat in the ring.
The Secretary of State has already received backing from Labor and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey and has been polishing his public profile in recent months.
Proud to support my friend @trussliz to become our next Prime Minister.
We need a leader who can unite the red and blue walls, has a clear vision for the country and the economy and has the skills and experience to make the difficult decisions right.
But despite her popularity among party members, candidates including Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt have recently come out on top in some bookmakers’ ratings.
If you missed it from one day to the next, Boris Johnson faces new accusations that he lobbied to get a job for a woman who claimed to have a sexual relationship with him while he was mayor of London. .
It is alleged that he lobbied for the woman to have a town hall job, the Sunday Times revealed, but the appointment was blocked because Kit Malthouse – now one of Johnson’s cabinet ministers – suggested the couple had an inappropriately close relationship.
Johnson is said to have admitted pushing her for a job when the woman, who remains anonymous, confronted him in 2017 when he was secretary of state.
You can read the full details of the allegations from Observer’s police editor Michael Savage here:
In addition to this week’s explosive news, the immediate outrage over a newly appointed Education Minister ‘gesture’ off Downing Street is about to die out.
But unfortunately for Andrea Jenkyns, who yesterday said she had been provoked by a “mixed mob”, it is still topical enough for other acting ministers to be asked about it.
Speaking to Times Radio earlier, Grant Shapps said: “I would like to see a high standard of decency in everyone. I would not support that.”
While you may think the writing has been on the wall for Boris Johnson for some time, it is worth considering that not everyone was prepared for his departure.
According to a voter in the Tory heartland of Spalding, who spoke to 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 in the same way as Boris, “added Steve Mason.
Meanwhile, Rosemary Burton said he had done a “fantastic job” with vaccinations. “I do not see who would take over from him who would do better,” she added.
You can read the full feature from James’ trip to Lincolnshire here:
Here’s a little more from 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 I was told – and I said it quite clearly in Parliament when I made my statement – did not turn out to be true,” he said.
“Now I do not know why anyone would have said anything to me that was not true. It is a question to them. But I trusted what I was told.”
Like fellow candidate Jeremy Hunt, Javid has announced his intention to lower corporate taxes should he prove successful in the race.
He said his tax cut plans would cost around £ 39 billion a year but would not include further cuts in fuel tax in the short term.
To explain that he does not believe in “unfunded tax cuts”, Javid said he would put up “a scorecard that will show exactly how everything we financed in a sustainable way” over the next few days.
Gives you a little Sunday morning joy in these politically uncertain times now.
Financial Times senior reporter Chris Cook has just drawn parallels between Penny Mordaunt’s leadership campaign video and a sketch from the 90s satire show The Day Today.
You will forgive me that I originally thought the soundtracks were exactly the same.
Just a reminder of who the current Conservative leadership candidates are – we are at nine now!
Jeremy Hunt says Esther McVey would be his deputy PM
With the barely hidden intention of winning voters off the Red Wall, Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has said he would make Esther McVey his deputy prime minister if he succeeds. See the article : Travel A.L.L.I.E.S. Society welcomes female leaders in travel conclave.
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Morning, he compared the Tatton MP to John Prescott as Tony Blair’s deputy.
“I also recognize that the leader of a political party must win elections, and that means a broad appeal, so just as Tony Blair got John Prescott to extend his appeal as his Deputy Prime Minister, I want Esther McVey as my Deputy Prime Minister. ,” he said.
“She has won many elections against Labor in the north, I have won them against Lib Dems in the south and I think we will be a formidable campaign team.”
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Boris Johnson’s admission that he met with former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at the height of the Salisbury crisis suggests a “serious security breach” took place.
Cooper told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that there were serious questions to be answered as to why Johnson, then Secretary of State, allegedly went “with a guest who has never been revealed” shortly after attending a NATO summit on Russia.
She pointed to the scandal as part of a broader pattern of alleged problematic behavior by the prime minister.
“I think the problem is that you have someone who’s still in Downing Street who nobody thinks has any duties, any sense of duty to the country who has been responsible for lies, for crimes and also today’s accusations of abuse of power against the country.a young woman while he was mayor of London.
“The point you made in your introduction, the serious security breach that seems to have happened while he was Foreign Minister, meets with a former KGB agent just after attending a NATO summit to discuss Russia at the height. of the Salisbury crisis and go without officials, go without security, apparently with a guest who has never been revealed.
“No one feels confident that Boris Johnson will do what’s right for the country. That’s why he should be gone now, and all the Conservative candidates you’ve interviewed, they should all support him going now. , before he does more harm. “
You can read more about Labor’s calls for an inquiry into the meeting here:
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Mordaunt Surname Definition: ‘bider. Legend has ever been that this is the origin of this Norman name.
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Esther Louise McVey (born 24 October 1967) is a British politician and television host who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017.
